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Question 17 (1 point) A company has two web servers running duplicate copies of the same website. What security goal is best served by this

Question 17 (1 point)

A company has two web servers running duplicate copies of the same website. What security goal is best served by this redundancy?

Question 17 options:

A)

Availability

B)

Confidentiality

C)

Integrity

D)

Accuracy

Please review securing data videos and read this Wired article prior to addressing the next six questions.

Question 18 (1 point)

What would be the estimated financial loss to Equifax due to the attack?

Question 18 options:

A)

Five thousand dollars

B)

There was reputational damage, but no financial loss

C)

None, because Equifax was covered with insurance

D)

Tens of millions of dollars

Question 19 (1 point)

What are the three states of data?

Please select all that apply.

Question 19 options:

A)

Being deleted

B)

Stored

C)

Being Processed

D)

In Transit

Question 20 (1 point)

The attack on Equifax potentially resulted in the theft of unprotected usernames and passwords from the web server that was vulnerable to the attack. If these usernames and passwords were on a USB device or hard drive, what state would you consider the usernames and passwords to be in?

Question 20 options:

A)

In transit

B)

Being processed

C)

Stored state

Question 21 (1 point)

Equifax stored lots of sensitive data. Storing all of this sensitive data could be one of the challenges they had in securing data. Based on the presentation and the Wired article, what types of sensitive data were ultimately lost in the breach?

Question 21 options:

A)

Financial data

B)

Social security numbers

C)

Credentials

D)

All of the above

Question 22 (1 point)

According to the Wired article, who are the real victims of the data breach?

Question 22 options:

A)

Editors at Wired magazine

B)

Individuals whose data was potentially compromised

C)

Equifax employees

D)

The manufacturer of Equifax's servers

Question 23 (1 point)

The primary vulnerability in the Equifax attack was in the Apache web server that was not patched with the latest security update. This allowed attackers to inject malicious code as input through this primary vulnerability. In this case, what state of data security did Equifax fail to protect that allowed this attack to succeed?

Question 23 options:

A)

Data being processed

B)

Data being deleted

C)

Data being stored

D)

Data in transmission

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