EC-Council
412-79V9 · Question #124
Why is an appliance-based firewall more secure than those implemented on top of the commercial operating system (Software based)?
The correct answer is C. Hardware appliances does not suffer from security vulnerabilities associated with the underlying operating system. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Why is an appliance-based firewall more secure than those implemented on top of the commercial operating system (Software based)?
Options
- AAppliance based firewalls cannot be upgraded
- BFirewalls implemented on a hardware firewall are highly scalable
- CHardware appliances does not suffer from security vulnerabilities associated with the underlying operating system
- DOperating system firewalls are highly configured
How the community answered
(60 responses)- A3% (2)
- B7% (4)
- C78% (47)
- D12% (7)
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