Assignment
o What is network and system hardening?
o What is a firewall?
o Are there different kinds of firewalls (not manufacturers of firewalls, different types of firewalls)?
o How do firewalls work? Should you drop or deny requests when configuring a firewall?
o What is a blocklist (previously referred to as blacklisting)? Allow-list (previously referred to as Whitelisting)?
o What is a proxy?
o What is an IDS? An IPS?
o What is the difference between passive and active scanning on a network?
o What is spoofing?
o What is war driving?
o How do you close ports?
o What is hacking? What is a white hat (ethical) hacker? A black hat (un-ethical) hacker? Gray hat?
o What is social engineering?
o What is virtualization? What is a guest OS? A host OS?
o What is a hypervisor? What is the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 hypervisors?
o What is a VPS? A VPN? A VLAN? SDNs?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.