Situations for confidentiality attacks

Question

List the potential situations for confidentiality attacks for the user workstations in the typical business environment.

Answer 1

a) LANs within the same building which are interconnected with the bridges and routers.

b) Wiring closet itself is vulnerable.

c) Coaxial cable and twisted pair may be attacked using either the invasive taps or inductive devices which monitor the electromagnetic emanation.

d) Additionally, to the potential vulnerability of several communications links, several processors along the path are themselves subjected to the attack.