Splendora Corporation, a corporation headquartered in Texas, is in the energy business. Since large amounts of money are involved, Splendora needs to have tight security for its data and application systems. Which of the following statements about its security might indicate a weakness in the security?
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a. | Splendora has a network firewall that protects access to its network and the applications that run on its networks. Since firewalls protect against intrusion by outsiders, Splendora does not utilize any virus protection software. | |
b. | A backdoor is a means of access that bypasses normal security procedures. Splendora controls access to its data center with access cards that log all employees who enter the computer center, so it does not feel that it has any backdoors. | |
c. | Each of the statements indicates a potential weakness in Splendora's security. | |
d. | Splendora generates a default password for new users of its application systems as the employee's last name and encourages but does not require that those passwords be changed. Splendora considers the possibility of a security problem to be remote since employees will invariably change those passwords as soon as they access the systems for the first time. |
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