ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An organization's small branch office has been using peer-to-peer file sharing among employee workstations. Following a security assessment, management tasks you, the security administrator, with redesigning the environment around a client-server model. Which primary benefit of a client-server architecture most directly mitigates the security weaknesses of the existing peer-to-peer setup?
It eliminates the need for dedicated administrative effort to perform regular data backups.
It removes single points of failure by distributing data across every client on the network.
It enables centralized authentication and authorization for all shared resources.
It allows each workstation to function independently without relying on continuous network connectivity.
In a client-server architecture, shared resources such as files, databases, and applications reside on dedicated servers that enforce centralized authentication and granular authorization. By keeping credentials, access control lists, and audit logs in one place, administrators can uniformly apply security policies, monitor usage, and quickly revoke or modify rights. Peer-to-peer networks lack this single point of control; each workstation must manage its own user accounts and permissions, making consistent enforcement difficult and increasing the attack surface. Distributing storage across clients, minimizing backups, or relying on autonomous operation are not inherent advantages of client-server designs and do not address the need for centralized security management.
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