Security+ and High Availability

For example, can you answer this question?

Q. Your organization is planning to deploy a new e-commerce web site. Management anticipates heavy processing requirements for a back-end application. The current design will use one web server and multiple application servers. Which of the following BEST describes the application servers?

A. Load balancing

B. Clustering

C. RAID

D. Affinity scheduling

Watch Out For This IRS Tax Scam

The IRS is warning people about another IRS tax scam. It's already hit several thousand people and based on its success so far, it will probably continue.

• Criminals use stolen client data from tax professionals and use them to file fraudulent tax returns.
• In the tax return, they ask the IRS to deposit the money into the taxpayer's bank account (or sometimes send a check).
• Criminals then demand that the money be returned.

Check out the details here.

Security+ and PKIs

Are you planning to take the SY0-401 or SY0-501 exam? If so, make sure you understand some basic PKI concepts. As an example, can you answer this sample Security+ practice test question?

Q. An organization hosts several web servers in a web farm used for e-commerce. Due to recent attacks, management is concerned that attackers might try to redirect web site traffic, allowing the attackers to impersonate their e-commerce site. Which of the following methods will address this issue?

A. Stapling

B. Perfect forward secrecy

C. Pinning

D. Key stretching

Check out the answer and full explanation here.

Cloud Computing

Are you planning to take the SY0-401 or SY0-501 Security+ exam?

Can you answer this sample Security+ practice test question?

Q. The Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant stores some data in the cloud using its own resources. The Springfield school system also has a cloud using its own resources. Later, the two organizations decide to share some of the educational data in both clouds. Which of the following BEST describes the cloud created by these two organizations?

A. Community

B. Private

C. Public

D. PaaS

See if you're correct, and read the full explanation here.

Check out the answer (and the full explanation) here.