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What is a DMZ |
Demilitarized zone |
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What is the name of areas that have good and bad wireless coverage |
Hot and cold zones |
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What is it called when testing wireless covergae |
Site survey |
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What is a honeynet |
A network of honeypots |
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What is PAT |
Allows a single public IP address to be used by many host on a private network. |
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What is physical isolation |
Physically take a device off the network and don't put it back on (unplug) |
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What is a VLAN? |
Logically separates a network |
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What are virtual machines good for? |
Testing different things, reallocating resources and reverting back to previous build |
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What I'd a proxy server? |
Go between. Caches web pages locally to speed up a request. Also acts a content filter. |
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Types of network sensors? |
Temperature, movement, humidity |
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What is an internet content filter? |
White list / blacklist |
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Where is the firewall usually located in a Network? |
On the outside as it is the first thing to be hit. |
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What is an aggregation switch |
A switch that combines all the connections on the network. Plug one switch into router and get multiple port connections |
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What is a mirrored port |
Copy's traffic that flows through port. Copied to a NIDS to detect attacks |
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Advantages of software defined nwtworking |
Scalable. More efficient and more comouting |
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What does a hardware security module do (HSM) |
Performs encryption suck as VPN or encryption authoroties |
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What is a BIOS |
Basic firmware used to boot into a computer and give basic instructions |
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What Is UEFI |
Replaced BIOS and uses secure boot |
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What is secure boot |
Protects pc from booting into untrusted boot loaders, helps stop malisciiuous loaders |
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What is a Kiost OS |
Mainly focussed on UI and generally touchscreen compatible |
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What is a mobile OS |
Focused for phones and tablets and utilise touch screen |
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What should you do if you are not using specific ports? |
Disable thwm. Protects against vulnerabilities / interference with other services |
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What is "least functionality" |
Giving the bare amount of a access that something or someone needa |
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What is a trusted OS |
Os that fits government regulations and prevents the comingling of certain types of data |
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What is application whitelisting |
Process where only company approved applications can be run on corporate computer |
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What should you do with default accounts |
Change username and password or even delete the account |
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What is a password policy? |
Set requirements a password needs to meet. E g. Length , complexity, expiry time |
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What is sandboxing? |
Testing environment to isolate untested chnages / experimentarion |
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Phases of Staging environments |
Development / testing / demo / staging / production |
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What is a security baseline |
A standard that needs to be met based on previous |
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