ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
A security administrator needs to create a firewall rule to permit internal application servers to deliver email directly to external mail exchangers on the Internet. Which TCP destination port should be opened to allow this Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) traffic?
SMTP uses TCP port 25 for transferring email between mail transfer agents on the Internet. Opening this port in the outbound firewall rule allows the organization's application servers to establish SMTP sessions with external mail servers. POP3 (port 110) and IMAP (port 143) are used by clients retrieving mail, not by servers sending it. DNS typically uses port 53 and is unrelated to SMTP message delivery.
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