ECSS: EC-Council Certified Security Specialist

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QuestionQ27

VerifiedInformation Security Controls and Policies

One method of defending against web-server attacks is to regularly audit the server ports to ensure that an insecure or unneeded service is not active on the web server. Which of the following limits inbound HTTPS traffic?

Explanation

HTTPS is assigned port 443; restricting inbound traffic on that port controls HTTPS access. The IANA service-name registry identifies port 443 as HTTP over TLS/SSL.

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