Recent data loss on financial servers due to security breaches forced the system administrator to harden their systems. Which of the following algorithms with transport encryption would be…

The correct answer is B. TLS. TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the modern, actively maintained successor to SSL and provides strong transport-layer encryption for web connections. SSL (choice A) is deprecated and has critical known vulnerabilities (e.g., POODLE, BEAST attacks) - no modern system should use…

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Question

Recent data loss on financial servers due to security breaches forced the system administrator to harden their systems. Which of the following algorithms with transport encryption would be implemented to provide the MOST secure web connections to manage and access these servers?

Options

ASSL
BTLS
CHTTP
DFTP

How the community answered

(47 responses)

A
4% (2)
B
91% (43)
C
2% (1)
D
2% (1)

Explanation

TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the modern, actively maintained successor to SSL and provides strong transport-layer encryption for web connections. SSL (choice A) is deprecated and has critical known vulnerabilities (e.g., POODLE, BEAST attacks) - no modern system should use SSL. HTTP (choice C) provides no encryption whatsoever, transmitting all data in plaintext. FTP (choice D) is a file transfer protocol that also transmits credentials and data in plaintext by default. For securing sensitive financial server management, TLS is the correct and only viable answer.

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