To reduce the costs of maintaining servers with FTP access; your company is using P2P to facilitate sharing of information. Which strategy should your company use to protect the company's sensitive in

The correct answer is C. Use technologies that will control access and password-protect files.. Using access controls and password protection (C) directly addresses the core challenge: enabling P2P file sharing while preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data - it secures the files themselves regardless of how or with whom they are shared. Option A is wrong because re

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Question

To reduce the costs of maintaining servers with FTP access; your company is using P2P to facilitate sharing of information. Which strategy should your company use to protect the company's sensitive information while capitalizing on the benefits of P2P power?

Options

ALimit P2P use to sharing music files.
BRestrict employees from using their computers in P2P communications.
CUse technologies that will control access and password-protect files.
DRestrict P2P use to sharing only with universities and research organizations.

How the community answered

(54 responses)

A
2% (1)
B
9% (5)
C
83% (45)
D
6% (3)

Explanation

Using access controls and password protection (C) directly addresses the core challenge: enabling P2P file sharing while preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data - it secures the files themselves regardless of how or with whom they are shared. Option A is wrong because restricting P2P to music files abandons the business utility of P2P entirely and doesn't secure company data. Option B is wrong because banning P2P altogether eliminates the cost-saving benefit the company is trying to capitalize on. Option D is wrong because restricting sharing partners does not protect the files themselves - a university or research partner could still expose sensitive data once they have access.

Memory tip: Think "protect the data, not just the path" - when a technology is already in use, the right security strategy controls what is shared and who can open it, not whether sharing happens at all.

Topics

#P2P Security#Access Control#Data Protection#Risk Mitigation

Community Discussion

Toby R.Feb 9, 2026

C is the right call here. The question is basically asking how you keep the benefits of P2P (cheaper than running FTP servers, distributed load, etc.) without exposing sensitive data, and the only option that actually addresses that is using access controls and password protection on the files themselves. A is nonsense because limiting to music files doesn't protect anything, it just restricts usage. B kills the whole point since the company is already committed to P2P as the solution, and D is arbitrary, sharing with universities doesn't make your files any safer. C is the only answer that lets you keep P2P running while adding a layer of security directly to the content, which is exactly what the question is asking for.

Carlos M.Feb 5, 2026

C is right, though "technologies" is vague, access control plus file encryption is the actual fix.

Fatima Z.Jan 24, 2026

Lock the files themselves, so does the P2P network even matter?

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