A company determines a need for additional protection from rogue devices plugging into physical
ports around the building.
Which of the following provides the highest degree of protection from unauthorized wired network
access?
A.
Intrusion Prevention Systems
B.
MAC filtering
C.
Flood guards
D.
802.1x
Explanation:
IEEE 802.1x is an IEEE Standard for Port-based Network Access Control (PNAC). It is part of the
IEEE 802.1 group of networking protocols and provides an authentication mechanism to wireless
devices connecting to a LAN or WLAN.