When confidentiality is the primary concern, and a secure channel for key exchange is not available, which of the following should be used for transmitting company documents?
A. Digital Signature
B. Symmetric
C. Asymmetric
D. Hashing
CompTIA exam questions
When confidentiality is the primary concern, and a secure channel for key exchange is not available, which of the following should be used for transmitting company documents?
A. Digital Signature
B. Symmetric
C. Asymmetric
D. Hashing
Which of the following provides the HIGHEST level of confidentiality on a wireless network?
A. Disabling SSID broadcast
B. MAC filtering
C. WPA2
D. Packet switching
Ann would like to forward some Personal Identifiable Information to her HR department by email, but she is worried about the confidentiality of the information. Which of the following will accomplish this task securely?
A. Digital Signatures
B. Hashing
C. Secret Key
D. Encryption
A security administrator wants to ensure that the message the administrator sends out to their Chief Financial Officer (CFO) does not get changed in route. Which of the following is the administrator MOST concerned with?
A. Data confidentiality
B. High availability
C. Data integrity
D. Business continuity
Protecting the confidentiality of a message is accomplished by encrypting the message with which of the following?
A. Sender’s private key
B. Recipient’s public key
C. Sender’s public key
D. Recipient’s private key
Which of the following controls can be used to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information stored on a mobile device’s removable media in the event that the device is lost or stolen?
A. Hashing
B. Screen locks
C. Device password
D. Encryption
A software firm posts patches and updates to a publicly accessible FTP site. The software firm also posts digitally signed checksums of all patches and updates. The firm does this to address:
A. Integrity of downloaded software.
B. Availability of the FTP site.
C. Confidentiality of downloaded software.
D. Integrity of the server logs.
A security manager requires fencing around the perimeter, and cipher locks on all entrances. The manager is concerned with which of the following security controls?
A. Integrity
B. Availability
C. Confidentiality
D. Safety
A software company has completed a security assessment. The assessment states that the company should implement fencing and lighting around the property. Additionally, the assessment states that production releases of their software should be digitally signed. Given the recommendations, the company was deficient in which of the following core security areas? (Select TWO).
A. Fault tolerance
B. Encryption
C. Availability
D. Integrity
E. Safety
F. Confidentiality
Several departments within a company have a business need to send high volumes of confidential information to customers via email. Which of the following is the BEST solution to mitigate unintentional exposure of confidential information?
A. Employ encryption on all outbound emails containing confidential information.
B. Employ exact data matching and prevent inbound emails with Data Loss Prevention.
C. Employ hashing on all outbound emails containing confidential information.
D. Employ exact data matching and encrypt inbound e-mails with Data Loss Prevention.