GIAC Information Security Fundamentals: GISF

Which of the following firewalls operates at three layers- Layer3, Layer4, and Layer5?

A. Circuit-level firewall

B. Application layer firewall

C. Proxy firewall

D. Dynamic packet-filtering firewall

Peter, a malicious hacker, wants to perform an attack. He first compromises computers distributed across the internet and then installs specialized software on these computers. He then instructs the compromised hosts to execute the attack. Every host can then be used to launch its own attack on the target computers. Which of the following attacks is Peter performing?

A. Teardrop attack

B. SYN flood attack

C. Ping of Death attack

D. DDoS attack

You are responsible for virus protection for a large college campus. You are very concerned that your antivirus solution must be able to capture the latest virus threats. What sort of virus protection should you implement?

A. Network Based

B. Dictionary

C. Heuristic

D. Host based