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700-765 Question #183: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B. Reputation Filtering. Reputation Filtering assigns websites a trust score by evaluating multiple contextual signals including ownership, content type, hosting location, behavior, and domain age.

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Question

What feature of web security filters websites based on who what where, how, and when to assign a website a score?

Options

  • ASandbox Filtering
  • BReputation Filtering
  • CMalware Filtering
  • DURL Analytics

Explanation

Reputation Filtering assigns websites a trust score by evaluating multiple contextual signals including ownership, content type, hosting location, behavior, and domain age.

Common mistakes.

  • A. Sandbox Filtering executes suspicious files or URLs in an isolated virtual environment to observe behavior - it does not assign scores based on contextual attributes of a website.
  • C. Malware Filtering scans content for known malicious signatures or heuristic patterns, not a holistic scoring of websites using contextual who/what/where/how/when factors.
  • D. URL Analytics refers broadly to analyzing URL structure and patterns for categorization, but it is not the specific mechanism that combines multiple contextual signals to produce a reputation score.

Concept tested. Web reputation scoring and filtering mechanism

Reference. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/web-security-appliance/products-user-guide-list.html

Topics

#web security#reputation filtering#URL scoring#website classification

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