THIS CHAPTER COVERS THE FOLLOWING SSCP EXAM OBJECTIVES:
Greg is the network administrator for a large stadium that hosts many events throughout the course of the year. They equip ushers with handheld scanners to verify tickets. Ushers turn over frequently and are often hired at the last minute. Scanners are handed out to ushers before each event, but different ushers may use different scanners. Scanners are secured in a locked safe when not in use. What network access control approach would be most effective for this scenario? Norma is helping her organization create a specialized network designed for vendors that need to connect to Norma’s organization’s network to process invoices and upload inventory. This network should be segmented from the rest of the corporate network but have a much higher degree of access than the general public. What type of network is Norma building? Which one of the following is an example of a nondiscretionary access control system? Wanda is configuring device-based authentication for systems on her network. Which one of the following approaches offers the strongest way to authenticate devices? Kaiden is creating an extranet for his organization and is concerned about unauthorized eavesdropping on network communications. Which one of the following technologies can he use to mitigate this risk? When Ben lists the files on a Linux system, he sees the set of attributes shown here. The letters rwx indicate different levels of what?
Which one of the following tools is most often used for identification purposes and is not suitable for use as an authenticator? Gary is preparing to create an account for a new user and assign privileges to the HR database. What two elements of information must Gary verify before granting this access? Ben’s organization is adopting biometric authentication for its high-security building’s access control system. Use the following chart to answer questions 9–11 about the organization’s adoption of the technology. Ben’s company is considering configuring its systems to work at the level shown by point A on the diagram. To what level is it setting the sensitivity? At point B, what problem is likely to occur? What should Ben do if the FAR and FRR shown in this diagram does not provide an acceptable performance level for his organization’s needs? When a subject claims an identity, what process is occurring? Files, databases, computers, programs, processes, devices, and media are all examples of what? MAC models use three types of environments. Which of the following is not a mandatory access control design? Ryan would like to implement an access control technology that is likely to both improve security and increase user satisfaction. Which one of the following technologies meets this requirement? The leadership at Susan’s company has asked her to implement an access control system that can support rule declarations like “Only allow access to salespeople from managed devices on the wireless network between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.” What type of access control system would be Susan’s best choice? What is the primary advantage of decentralized access control? Which of the following is best described as an access control model that focuses on subjects and identifies the objects that each subject can access? Match each of the numbered authentication techniques with the appropriate lettered category. Each technique should be matched with exactly one category. Each category may be used once, more than once, or not at all. Susan wants to integrate her website to allow users to use accounts from sites like Google. What technology should she adopt? Ben uses a software-based token that changes its code every minute. What type of token is he using? How does single sign-on increase security? Which of the following multifactor authentication technologies provides both low management overhead and flexibility? Tom is planning to terminate an employee this afternoon for fraud and expects that the meeting will be somewhat hostile. He is coordinating the meeting with human resources and wants to protect the company against damage. Which one of the following steps is most important to coordinate in time with the termination meeting? Jim wants to allow a partner organization’s Active Directory forest (B) to access his domain forest’s (A)’s resources but doesn’t want to allow users in his domain to access B’s resources. He also does not want the trust to flow upward through the domain tree as it is formed. What should he do? The financial services company that Susan works for provides a web portal for its users. When users need to verify their identity, the company uses information from third-party sources to ask questions based on their past credit reports, such as “Which of the following streets did you live on in 2007?” What process is Susan’s organization using? Lauren’s team of system administrators each deal with hundreds of systems with varying levels of security requirements and find it difficult to handle the multitude of usernames and passwords they each have. What type of solution should she recommend to ensure that passwords are properly handled and that features such as logging and password rotation occur? What type of trust relationship extends beyond the two domains participating in the trust to one or more of their subdomains? Adam is accessing a standalone file server using a username and password provided to him by the server administrator. Which one of the following entities is guaranteed to have information necessary to complete the authorization process? After 10 years working in her organization, Cassandra is moving into her fourth role, this time as a manager in the accounting department. What issue is likely to show up during an account review if her organization does not have strong account maintenance practices? Adam recently configured permissions on an NTFS filesystem to describe the access that different users may have to a file by listing each user individually. What did Adam create? Questions like “What is your pet’s name?” are examples of what type of identity proofing? What access management concept defines what rights or privileges a user has? Susan has been asked to recommend whether her organization should use a MAC scheme or a DAC scheme. If flexibility and scalability are important requirements for implementing access controls, which scheme should she recommend and why? Which of the following tools is not typically used to verify that a provisioning process was followed in a way that ensures that the organization’s security policy is being followed? Joe is the security administrator for an ERP system. He is preparing to create accounts for several new employees. What default access should he give to all of the new employees as he creates the accounts? A new customer at a bank that uses fingerprint scanners to authenticate its users is surprised when he scans his fingerprint and is logged in to another customer’s account. What type of biometric factor error occurred? Laura is in the process of logging into a system and she just entered her password. What term best describes this activity? Kelly is adjusting her organization’s password requirements to make them consistent with best practice guidance from NIST. What should she choose as the most appropriate time period for password expiration? Ben is working on integrating a federated identity management system and needs to exchange authentication and authorization information for browser-based single sign-on. What technology is his best option? What access control scheme labels subjects and objects and allows subjects to access objects when the labels match? Mandatory access control is based on what type of model? Ricky would like to access a remote file server through a VPN connection. He begins this process by connecting to the VPN and attempting to log in. Applying the subject/object model to this request, what is the subject of Ricky’s login attempt? What type of access control is typically used by firewalls? Gabe is concerned about the security of passwords used as a cornerstone of his organization’s information security program. Which one of the following controls would provide the greatest improvement in Gabe’s ability to authenticate users? During a review of support incidents, Ben’s organization discovered that password changes accounted for more than a quarter of its help desk’s cases. Which of the following options would be most likely to decrease that number significantly? Jim wants to allow cloud-based applications to act on his behalf to access information from other sites. Which of the following tools can allow that? Which one of the following activities is an example of an authorization process? Raul is creating a trust relationship between his company and a vendor. He is implementing the system so that it will allow users from the vendor’s organization to access his accounts payable system using the accounts created for them by the vendor. What type of authentication is Raul implementing? In Luke’s company, users change job positions on a regular basis. Luke would like the company’s access control system to make it easy for administrators to adjust permissions when these changes occur. Which model of access control is best suited for Luke’s needs? When you input a user ID and password, you are performing what important identity and access management activity? Which of the following is a ticket-based authentication protocol designed to provide secure communication? Which of the following Type 3 authenticators is appropriate to use by itself rather than in combination with other biometric factors? What type of token-based authentication system uses a challenge/response process in which the challenge must be entered on the token? As part of hiring a new employee, Kathleen’s identity management team creates a new user object and ensures that the user object is available in the directories and systems where it is needed. What is this process called? What access control system lets owners decide who has access to the objects they own? When Alex sets the permissions shown in the following image as one of many users on a Linux server, what type of access control model is he leveraging?
The U.S. government CAC is an example of what form of Type 2 authentication factor? What term is used to describe the problem that occurs when users change jobs in an organization but never have the access rights associated with their old jobs removed? Which objects and subjects have a label in a MAC model? Jack’s organization is a government agency that handles very sensitive information. They need to implement an access control system that allows administrators to set access rights but does not allow the delegation of those rights to other users. What is the best type of access control design for Jack’s organization? Kathleen works for a data center hosting facility that provides physical data center space for individuals and organizations. Until recently, each client was given a magnetic-strip-based keycard to access the section of the facility where their servers are located, and they were also given a key to access the cage or rack where their servers reside. In the past month, several servers have been stolen, but the logs for the pass cards show only valid IDs. What is Kathleen’s best option to make sure that the users of the pass cards are who they are supposed to be? What term is used to describe the default set of privileges assigned to a user when a new account is created? Kathleen is implementing an access control system for her organization and builds the following array: What type of access control system has Kathleen implemented? When a user attempts to log into their online account, Google sends a text message with a code to their cell phone. What type of verification is this?
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