WGU D430 FUNDAMENTALS OF
INFORMATION SECURITY PROFESSIONAL
TEST BANK 2026 COMPLETE SOLUTION
SERIES
◉Accountability. Answer: Provides us with the means to trace
activists in our environment back to their source. Depends on
identification, authentication, and access control being present so
that we know who a given transaction is associated with, and what
permissions were used to allow them to carry it out
◉Nonrepudiation. Answer: Refers to a situation in which sufficient
evidence exists to prevent an individual from denying that he or she
has made a statement or taken action
◉Deterrence. Answer: discouraging criminal acts by threatening
punishment
◉Admissibility of records. Answer: When we seek to introduce
records in legal settings, it is often much easier to do so and have
them accepted when they are produced from a regulated and
consistent tracking system.
, ◉Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Answer: Preforms strictly as a
monitoring and alert toll. Only notifying us that an attack or
undesirable activity is taking place
◉Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Answer: Can take action based
on what is happening in the environment. In response to an attack
over the network an ips might refuse traffic from the source of the
attack
◉Auditing. Answer: Ensuring that we have accurate records of who
did what and when. Primarily focused on compliance with relevant
laws and policies, and access to and from systems and sometimes
physical security
◉Assessments. Answer: Vulnerability and penetration testing
◉Vulnerability Assessment. Answer: Tools such as Nessus . They
work by scanning the target systems to discover which ports are
open on them and then interrogating each open port to find out
exactly which service is listening on the port in question
◉Penetration Testing. Answer: We conduct a test where we mimic as
closely as possible the techniques an actual attacker would us
INFORMATION SECURITY PROFESSIONAL
TEST BANK 2026 COMPLETE SOLUTION
SERIES
◉Accountability. Answer: Provides us with the means to trace
activists in our environment back to their source. Depends on
identification, authentication, and access control being present so
that we know who a given transaction is associated with, and what
permissions were used to allow them to carry it out
◉Nonrepudiation. Answer: Refers to a situation in which sufficient
evidence exists to prevent an individual from denying that he or she
has made a statement or taken action
◉Deterrence. Answer: discouraging criminal acts by threatening
punishment
◉Admissibility of records. Answer: When we seek to introduce
records in legal settings, it is often much easier to do so and have
them accepted when they are produced from a regulated and
consistent tracking system.
, ◉Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Answer: Preforms strictly as a
monitoring and alert toll. Only notifying us that an attack or
undesirable activity is taking place
◉Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Answer: Can take action based
on what is happening in the environment. In response to an attack
over the network an ips might refuse traffic from the source of the
attack
◉Auditing. Answer: Ensuring that we have accurate records of who
did what and when. Primarily focused on compliance with relevant
laws and policies, and access to and from systems and sometimes
physical security
◉Assessments. Answer: Vulnerability and penetration testing
◉Vulnerability Assessment. Answer: Tools such as Nessus . They
work by scanning the target systems to discover which ports are
open on them and then interrogating each open port to find out
exactly which service is listening on the port in question
◉Penetration Testing. Answer: We conduct a test where we mimic as
closely as possible the techniques an actual attacker would us
