A security administrator is tasked with securing a company's headquarters and branch offices move to unified communications. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to integrate the corporate users' email, voice mail, telephony, presence and corporate messaging to internal computers, mobile users, and devices.
Which of the following actions would BEST meet the CIO's goals while providing maximum unified communications security?
A. Create presence groups, restrict IM protocols to the internal networks, encrypt remote devices, and restrict access to services to local network and VPN clients.The increasing complexity of attacks on corporate networks is a direct result of more and more corporate employees connecting to corporate networks with mobile and personal devices. In most cases simply banning these connections and devices is not practical because they support necessary business needs.
Which of the following are typical risks and mitigations associated with this new trend?
A. Risks: Data leakage, lost data on destroyed mobile devices, smaller network attack surface, prohibitive telecommunications costs Mitigations: Device Encryptions, lock screens, certificate based authentication, corporate telecom plansA company contracts with a third party to develop a new web application to process credit cards.
Which of the following assessments will give the company the GREATEST level of assurance for the web application?
A. Social EngineeringThe Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a technology company is likely to move away from a de- perimeterized model for employee owned devices. This is because there were too many issues with lack of patching, malware incidents, and data leakage due to lost/stolen devices which did not have full-disk encryption. The `bring your own computing' approach was originally introduced because different business units preferred different operating systems and application stacks.
Based on the issues and user needs, which of the following is the BEST recommendation for the CIO to make?
A. The de-perimeterized model should be kept as this is major industry trend and other companies are following this direction. Advise that the issues being faced are standard business as usual concerns in a modern IT environment.The lead systems architect on a software development project developed a design which is optimized for a distributed computing environment. The security architect assigned to the project has concerns about the integrity of the system, if it is deployed in a commercial cloud. Due to poor communication within the team, the security risks of the proposed design are not being given any attention. A network engineer on the project has a security background and is concerned about the overall success of the project.
Which of the following is the BEST course of action for the network engineer to take?
A. Address the security concerns through the network design and security controls.After implementing port security, restricting all network traffic into and out of a network, migrating to IPv6, installing NIDS, firewalls, spam and application filters, a security administer is convinced that the network is secure. The administrator now focuses on securing the hosts on the network, starting with the servers.
Which of the following is the MOST complete list of end-point security software the administrator could plan to implement?
A. Anti-malware/virus/spyware/spam software, as well as a host based firewall and strong, two- factor authentication.A security administrator has finished building a Linux server which will host multiple virtual machines through hypervisor technology. Management of the Linux server, including monitoring server performance, is achieved through a third party web enabled application installed on the Linux server. The security administrator is concerned about vulnerabilities in the web application that may allow an attacker to retrieve data from the virtual machines.
Which of the following will BEST protect the data on the virtual machines from an attack?
A. The security administrator must install the third party web enabled application in a chroot environment.The internal audit department is investigating a possible breach of security. One of the auditors is sent to interview the following employees:
Employee A. Works in the accounts receivable office and is in charge of entering data into the finance system.
Employee B. Works in the accounts payable office and is in charge of approving purchase orders.
Employee C. Is the manager of the finance department, supervises Employee A and Employee B, and can perform the functions of both Employee A and Employee B.
Which of the following should the auditor suggest be done to avoid future security breaches?
A. All employees should have the same access level to be able to check on each others.A company recently experienced a malware outbreak. It was caused by a vendor using an approved non-company device on the company's corporate network that impacted manufacturing lines, causing a week of downtime to recover from the attack.
Which of the following reduces this threat and minimizes potential impact on the manufacturing lines?
A. Disable remote access capabilities on manufacturing SCADA systems.An industry organization has implemented a system to allow trusted authentication between all of its partners. The system consists of a web of trusted RADIUS servers communicating over the Internet. An attacker was able to set up a malicious server and conduct a successful man-in-the- middle attack.
Which of the following controls should be implemented to mitigate the attack in the future?
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