A Company Decides to Deploy Customer-Facing, Touch-Screen Kiosks

question 339

Multiple Choice

A company decides to deploy customer-facing, touch-screen kiosks. The kiosks appear to have several open source service ports that could potentially become compromised. Which of the following is the MOST effective way to protect the kiosks?

• A) Install an IDS to monitor all traffic to and from the kiosks.
• B) Install honeypots on the network to detect and analyze potential kiosk attacks before they occur.
• C) Enable switchport security on the ports to which the kiosks are connected to prevent network-level attacks.
• D) Create a new network segment with ACLs, limiting kiosks' traffic with the internal network.

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