CISSP Question of the Week: Secure Communications

Bob manages the sales department. Most of his sales representatives travel among several client sites. He wants to enable these sales representatives to check the shipping status of their orders online. This information currently resides on the company intranet, but it is not accessible to anyone outside the company firewall. Bob has asked you to accomplish this. You decide to create an extranet to allow these employees to view their customers’ order status and history. Which technique could you use to secure communications between network segments sending order-status data via the Internet?

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CISSP Question of the Week: Customer Credit Card Information

CISSP Question of the Week courtesy of Transcender Labs. Your company has an e-commerce site that is publicly accessible over the Internet. The e-commerce site accepts credit card information from a customer and then processes the customer’s transaction. Which standard or law would apply for this type of data? A. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 B. […]

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