Adam works as a Network administrator for Umbrella Inc.

Vendor: SANS
Product: SEC504
Update on: Jan 10, 2026
Questions: 328

SANS SEC504 Question Answer

Adam works as a Network administrator for Umbrella Inc. He noticed that an ICMP ECHO requests is coming from some suspected outside sources. Adam suspects that some malicious hacker is trying to perform ping sweep attack on the network of the company. To stop this malicious activity, Adam blocks the ICMP ECHO request from any outside sources.

What will be the effect of the action taken by Adam?

Network turns completely immune from the ping sweep attacks.

Network is still vulnerable to ping sweep attack.

Network is protected from the ping sweep attack until the next reboot of the server.

Network is now vulnerable to Ping of death attack.