CS0-003 · Question #147
A company's security team recently discovered a number of workstations that are at the end of life. The workstation vendor informs the team that the product is no longer supported and patches are no l
The correct answer is C. Isolate the workstations and air gap them when it is feasible. An air gap, air wall, air gapping or disconnected network is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.
Question
A company's security team recently discovered a number of workstations that are at the end of life. The workstation vendor informs the team that the product is no longer supported and patches are no longer available. The company is not prepared to cease its use of these workstations. Which of the following would be the BEST method to protect these workstations from threats?
Options
- ADeploy whitelisting to the identified workstations to limit the attack surface
- BDetermine the system process centrality and document it
- CIsolate the workstations and air gap them when it is feasible
- DIncrease security monitoring on the workstations
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A7% (2)
- B19% (5)
- C44% (12)
- D30% (8)
Explanation
An air gap, air wall, air gapping or disconnected network is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.
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