GSNA Exam Dumps : GIAC Systems and Network Auditor

Storage and retention policies will determine how long you keep records (such as records of customers Web activity), how you will store them, and how you will dispose of them. This will allow you to know what records you should still have on hand should a legal request for such records come in. Answer: C is incorrect. User policies might determine what a customer has access to, but won't help you identify what they actually did access. Answer: A is incorrect. Group policies are usually pertinent to network administration, not the open and uncontrolled environment of an ISP. Answer: B is incorrect. Backup policies dictate how data is backed up and stored.

Corrective controls are used after a security breach. After security has been breached, corrective controls are intended to limit the extent of any damage caused by the incident, e.g. by recovering the organization to normal working status as efficiently as possible. Answer: D is incorrect. Before the event, preventive controls are intended to prevent an incident from occurring, e.g. by locking out unauthorized intruders. Answer: B is incorrect. During the event, detective controls are intended to identify and characterize an incident in progress, e.g. by sounding the intruder alarm and alerting the security guards or the police. Answer: A is incorrect. Safeguards are those controls that provide some amount of protection to an asset.

A proxy server is a very important element for firewall applications. The services that it provides are as follows: Hide network resources: Proxy replaces the network IP address with a single IP address. Multiple systems can use a single IP address. Logging: A proxy server can log incoming and outgoing access, allowing a user to see every possible details of successful and failed connections. Cache: A proxy server can save information obtained from the Internet. It regularly updates these copies and automatically shows these pages, and will thus not need to access the Internet to view them.