ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your organization is considering using a peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture to distribute large operating-system update images to 1,000 workstations across several remote sites. From a security and availability perspective, which characteristic best explains why a well-secured P2P approach could be preferable to a traditional client-server design?
All transfers automatically occur over port 443, simplifying firewall configuration.
It eliminates the need for host-based firewalls because traffic is limited to outbound connections only.
It removes the single centralized repository, reducing the impact of a server outage.
The architecture guarantees distribution of only digitally signed images without additional controls.
In a P2P architecture every participating host can simultaneously download and upload the image, so the service continues even if one or several peers go offline. Because there is no single authoritative server, the design eliminates the single point of failure that a client-server model introduces. By contrast, port selection, digital signatures, and firewall behavior are implementation details that are not inherently guaranteed by simply choosing P2P.
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