Answers to Review Questions
1. A. Baselining is the process of establishing a standard for security.
2. B. Hardening is the process of improving the security of an operating system or application. One of the primary methods of hardening an OS is to eliminate unneeded protocols.
3. A. BitLocker provides drive encryption and is available with Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
4. C. FAT technology offers limited security options.
5. A. A service pack is one or more repairs to system problems bundled into a single process or function.
6. B. Never share the root directory of a disk if at all possible. Doing so opens the entire disk to potential exploitation.
7. C. A hotfix is done while a system is operating. This reduces the necessity of taking a system ...
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