10 Questions
Software systems should be designed to recover aggressively from failures.
False
Exception handling is a technique used to diagnose failures.
True
A fail-safe design would allow all traffic to pass through if a firewall fails.
False
An authentication system should grant access if it fails.
False
A biometric scanner should grant access if it fails to read a user’s fingerprint correctly.
False
Fail-safe design is only applicable to software development.
False
Logging is a technique used to recover from failures.
False
A fail-safe design ensures that a system remains insecure in the event of a failure.
False
Software systems should be designed to exit abruptly from failures.
False
Exception handling and logging are techniques used to prevent failures.
False
Test your understanding of the fail-safe default principle in software development, including its definition, importance, and examples. Recognize and explain the principle in cybersecurity design principles. Learn how access to objects or resources should be denied by default unless explicitly granted.
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