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Question 1. List and briefly define three classes of intruders.

Question 2. What are two common techniques used to protect a password file?

Question 3. What are three benefits that can be provided by an intrusion detection system?

Question 4. What is the difference between statistical anomaly detection and rule-based intrusion detection?

Question 5. What metrics are useful for profile-based intrusion detection?

Question 6. What is the difference between rule-based anomaly detection and rule-based penetration identification?

Question 7. What is a honeypot?

Question 8. What is a salt in the context of UNIX password management?

Question 9. List and briefly define four techniques used to avoid guessable passwords.

Question 10. List three design goals for a firewall.

Question 11. List four techniques used by firewalls to control access and enforce a security policy.

Question 12. What information is used by a typical packet filtering firewall?

Question 13. What are some weaknesses of a packet filtering firewall?

Question 14. What is the difference between a packet filtering firewall and a stateful inspection firewall?

Question 15. What is an application-level gateway?

Question 16. What is a circuit-level gateway?

Question 17. What are the common characteristics of a bastion host?

Question 18. Why is it useful to have host-based firewalls?

Question 19. What is a DMZ network and what types of systems would you expect to find on such networks?

Question 20. What is the difference between an internal and an external firewall?