8. Computer Security Technology

1. What is a virus scanner and how does it works?
2. How the following virus-scanning techniques work?
    a. Email and attachment scanning
    b. Download scanning
    c. File scanning
    d. Heuristic scanning
    e. Sandbox
3. Techniques used by commercial scanners?
    a. Active code scanning
    b. False positives and false negatives
4. What is a firewall?
     a. What are the benefits and limitations of firewalls?
     b. What is an application gateway?
     c. How does each firewall configuration works?
         - network host-based
         - dual-homed host
         - router-based firewall
         - screened host
     d. What is a firewall log?
5. What is an antispyware?
6. What is an IDS?
     a. What is a passive IDS? active IDS?
     b. Ways in identifying intrusions?
          - signature based
          - statistical anomaly
     c. What is a honey pot?
     d. What is intrusion deflection?
     e. What is authentication?
7. What is a digital certificate?
8. What is SSL/TLS?
9. What is a Virtual Private Network?
     a. Protocols used in creating a VPN
         - PPTP
         - L2TP
         - IPsec
10. Wi-Fi Security Protocols
     a. Wired equivalent privacy
     b. Wi-Fi Protected Access
     c. WPA2