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A security engineer is faced with competing requirements from the networking group and database administrators. The database administrators would like ten application servers on the same subnet for ea

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Submitted by haruto_sh· Mar 4, 2026Security architecture

Question

A security engineer is faced with competing requirements from the networking group and database administrators. The database administrators would like ten application servers on the same subnet for ease of administration, whereas the networking group would like to segment all applications from one another. Which of the following should the security administrator do to rectify this issue?

Options

  • ARecommend performing a security assessment on each application, and only segment the
  • BRecommend classifying each application into like security groups and segmenting the groups
  • CRecommend segmenting each application, as it is the most secure approach
  • DRecommend that only applications with minimal security features should be segmented to

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#network segmentation#security architecture#risk-based classification#application isolation
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