Practice Exam 1

Item number: 1

Item type: Multiple Choice

Question: A security audit has uncovered that some of the encryption keys used to secure your organization’s business-to-business (B2B) private data exchange transactions with its partners are too weak. The security administrator needs to implement a process to ensure that private data exchange transactions will not be compromised if a weak encryption key is found. Which should the security administrator do?

Options:

A. Implement PFS on all VPN tunnels.

B. Implement PFS on all SSH connections.

C. Implement HMAC on all VPN tunnels.

D. Implement HMAC on all SSH connections.

Answer: A

Explanation: You should implement perfect forward secrecy (PFS) on all VPN tunnels to ensure that private ...

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