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NETWORK SECURITY | NETWORK SECURITY DEVICES | Load Balancers, proxies, and web security gateways
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- 1What 3 devices play a hybrid role and serve as network devices and security controlsLoad balancers
Proxies
Web security gateways - 2List 3 basic web server configurationsAssign IP address to web server on DMZ
create DNS entry that ties the registered domain for the server to IP address of server (ex:www.myserver.com)
When users type myserver.com, they connect to the web server located in the DMZ - 3A more efficient way to grow server capacity where several servers share the load Determines which server will answer each user requestLoad balancing
- 4The ____ entry for the web domain doesn't point directly to a web server, but to the ____________. As demand increases, administrators can add more servers using a technique called __________.DNS
load balancer
auto scaling - 5what process is this?load balancer
- 63 load balancer security functionsSSL certificate management
URL filtering
Web application security policy enforcement tasks such as limiting access to restricted portions of a site to certain IP address ranges - 7Servers that browse web sites on behalf of end users Prevent users from directly connecting to web sitesProxy servers
- 8INFO: Normally when user connects to web site their system connects directly with web server; in proxy situation, the user connects to proxy server and proxy server connects to web server
- 93 proxy server benefitsAnonymization
Performance boosting
Content filtering - 10Logs only contain the address of the proxy serverAnonymization
- 11The ________ stores copies of frequently requested pages and answer some user requests with those stored or cached copies reducing the demand for ___________proxy server
network bandwidth - 12Web security gateways 7 functionsSits between user and internet
Scans request coming from user
Scan responses coming from internet
Filters out potential malicious attacks
Performs more advance filtering than proxy servers
Incorporate real time threat intelligence information
Cutting edge anti-intrusion technology for added layer of protection
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- Description
- 1. Switches and Routers | 2. Firewalls | 3. Load Balancers, proxies, and web security gateways | 4. VPNs and VPN concentrators | 5. Network intrusion detection and prevention | 6. Protocol analyzers | 7. Unified threat management
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