13.8. Answers to Review Questions

  1. B. A firewall protects a private network from unauthorized users on a public network.

  2. C. On a private network, only authorized users have access to the data, versus a public network where everyone connected has access to the data.

  3. B. After determining that the user has local network access, your next step would be to verify the VPN address and password.

  4. D. To have good security on your network, deny any addresses from your internal networks, deny any local host addresses (127.0.0.0/8), deny any reserved private addresses, and deny any addresses in the IP multicast address range (224.0.0.0/4).

  5. D. Tunneling is encapsulating one protocol within another protocol to complete a secure transmission. All of the above are ...

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