ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An engineer is tightening inbound network rules for an Amazon EC2 instance that will run a plain-text Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) service. Email clients must be able to retrieve messages over TCP without TLS, while POP3 and SMTP access remain blocked. Which single TCP port should be opened in the security group to meet these requirements?
Unencrypted IMAP listens on TCP port 143. Allowing this port enables clients to retrieve mail using standard IMAP while leaving other mail protocols closed. Port 25 is reserved for SMTP message transfer, port 110 is used by POP3, and port 993 is the default port for IMAP secured with TLS. Opening any of those would not satisfy the requirement and would unnecessarily expose other services.
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