Due to a recent economic downturn, an IT organization has terminated several adm

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Due to a recent economic downturn, an IT organization has terminated several administrators at remote sites and consolidated all IT administration to the organization's central headquarters. During the annual IT audit, the auditor determines that the organization has implemented remote admin connectivity to each site using low-cost DSL connections and an automated SNMP-based monitoring system to detect any hardware or software issues that may occur. In the auditor's mind, what should be the biggest area of concern? The authentication methods used for the remote admin may not be secure and default SNMP passwords may be in use Physical security at remote sites may not be adequate. Terminated employees may retain access to systems at remote sites. O O The connection to remote sites is secure through the use of a virtual private network (VPN).

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The biggest concern would be if the connection to remote sites is not using a VPN for connectivity. But option D) says that the sites are using VPN for connectivity and secured because of it. If we are not using VPN, then option d might be correct option

But As d) contradicts, and says we are secure because of VPN, The second most biggest concern is that authenticity methods used might not be inadequate.as stated in option a) default SNMP password might be used without any kind of security for remote admin authentication. So option a) is correct.

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