Secure Network Architecture

Question 1

Network hardening

Answer 1

The process of securing a network by reducing it’s potential vulnerabilities through configuration changes and taking specific steps

Question 2

Implicit Deny

Answer 2

A network security concept where anything not explicitly permitted or allowed should be denied

Question 3

Analysing logs

Answer 3

The practice of collecting logs from different network and sometimes client devices on your network, then performing an automated analysis on them

Question 4

Logs analysis systems

Answer 4

Are configured using user-defined rules to match interesting or atypical log entries

Question 5

Normalizing log data

Answer 5

Is an important step, since logs from different devices and systems may not be formatted in a common way

Question 6

Post fail analysis

Answer 6

Investigates how a compromise happened after the breach is detected

Question 7

Flood guards

Answer 7

Provides protection against DoS attacks

Question 8

Rogue DHCP server attack

Question 9

DHCP snooping

Question 10

EAP-TLS

Answer 10

An authentication type supported by EAP that uses TLS to provide mutual authentication of both client and the authenticating server