A company's network has been breached, and the attacker is moving laterally between departments. The security team wants to limit the ability of an attacker to move from the finance department to the engineering department. Which measure is most effective?

Segment the network into separate VLANs and enforce firewall rules between them

Enable MAC address filtering on all switches

Install antivirus software on all endpoints

Disable SSID broadcast on the wireless network

A company allows employees to work from home. They need to access internal resources securely over the internet. The security team wants to ensure that all traffic between the employee's laptop and the corporate network is encrypted and that the employee's device appears to be on the internal network. Which technology should they deploy?

A reverse proxy that forwards HTTPS requests to internal web servers

A VLAN configured for remote users on the corporate switch

A virtual private network (VPN) using IPsec or TLS tunneling

A network-based intrusion prevention system (IPS) at the corporate perimeter

A coffee shop offers free Wi-Fi to customers. The owner wants to prevent casual eavesdropping on customer traffic and also prevent unauthorized users from joining the network. Which configuration should be used?

Use an open network but require users to accept a terms-of-service page

Enable WPA3 with a strong passphrase and disable SSID broadcast

Disable SSID broadcast and rely on the network being hidden

Enable WEP with a shared key and enable MAC address filtering

LPI Security Essentials

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A company's network has been breached, and the attacker is moving laterally between departments. The security team wants to limit the ability of an attacker to move from the finance department to the engineering department. Which measure is most effective?
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A company allows employees to work from home. They need to access internal resources securely over the internet. The security team wants to ensure that all traffic between the employee's laptop and the corporate network is encrypted and that the employee's device appears to be on the internal network. Which technology should they deploy?
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A coffee shop offers free Wi-Fi to customers. The owner wants to prevent casual eavesdropping on customer traffic and also prevent unauthorized users from joining the network. Which configuration should be used?
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A company's network has been breached, and the attacker is moving laterally between departments. The security team wants to limit the ability of an attacker to move from the finance department to the engineering department. Which measure is most effective?

A coffee shop offers free Wi-Fi to customers. The owner wants to prevent casual eavesdropping on customer traffic and also prevent unauthorized users from joining the network. Which configuration should be used?

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