Section 3

Question 1

What is a Sniifer?

Answer 1

Capture and display network traffic packet by packet.

Question 2

Whitelist

Answer 2

Only receive email from trusted senders

Question 3

SMTO standards checking

Answer 3

Block anything that does’nt follow RFC standards

Question 4

rDNS

Answer 4

Block email where the sender’s domain does’nt match the ip address.

Question 5

Tarpitting

Answer 5

Intentionally slow down the server conversation.

Question 6

Recipient filtering

Answer 6

Block all email not addressed to a valid recipient email address.

Question 7

WAF - Web application firewall

Answer 7

Not like a normal firewall, Applies rules to HTTP conversations

Allow or deny based on expected input

Question 8

What are Application-aware sercuirty devices

Answer 8

Looks at all data in every packet

Every packet must be analyzed,catgorized,and a security decision is determined.

Question 9

Network-based firewalls

Answer 9

Control traffic flows based on the applicaiton.

Question 10

Host-basewd firewalls

Answer 10

Work witht he OS to detemine the application.