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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 385 of 611

An application tunnels its traffic over port 443 to avoid filtering. Which control identifies it anyway?

  1. A next-generation firewall inspecting at the application layer
  2. A stateless packet filter
  3. Network address translation
  4. A load balancer
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Answer: A. A next-generation firewall inspecting at the application layer

Application-layer identification means the decision no longer depends on the port number the traffic claims.

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