Which firewall configuration should they implement?

Topic 1, HipLocal

Case Study

Company Overview

HipLocal is a community application designed to facilitate communication between people in close proximity. It is used for event planning and organizing sporting events, and for businesses to connect with their local communities. HipLocal launched recently in a few neighborhoods in Dallas and is rapidly growing into a global phenomenon. Its unique style of hyper-local community communication and business outreach is in demand around the world.

Executive statement

We are the number one local community app; it’s time to take our local community services global. Our venture capital investors want to see rapid growth and the same great experience for new local and virtual communities that come online, whether their members are 10 or 10,000 miles away from each other.

Solution concept

HipLocal wants to expand their existing service, with updated functionality, in new regions to better serve their global customers. They want to hire and train a new team to support these regions in their time zones. They will need to ensure that the application scales smoothly and provides clear uptime data.

Existing technical environment

HipLocal’s environment is a mix of on-premises hardware and infrastructure running in Google Cloud Platform. The HipLocal team understands their application well but has limited experience in global scale applications.

Their existing technical environment is as follows:

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Business requirements

HipLocal’s investors want to expand their footprint and support the increase in demand they are seeing.

Their requirements are:

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Technical requirements

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HipLocal is configuring their access controls.

Which firewall configuration should they implement?
A . Block all traffic on port 443.
B . Allow all traffic into the network.
C . Allow traffic on port 443 for a specific tag.
D . Allow all traffic on port 443 into the network.

View Answer

Answer: D