SANS Cyber Security Terms- Elaborations & Definitions (100% Correct)

SANS Cyber Security Terms- Elaborations & Definitions (100% Correct) SANS Cyber Security Terms- Elaborations & Definitions (100% Correct) Access Control - ANSWER - Ensures that resources are only granted to those users who are entitled to them. Access Control List - ANSWER - A mechanism that implements access control for a system resource by listing the identities of the system entities that are permitted to access the resource. (or referred to as ACL) Access Control Service - ANSWER - A security service that provides protection of system resources against unauthorized access. The two basic mechanisms for implementing this service are ACLs and tickets. Access Management Access - ANSWER - The maintenance of access information which consists of four tasks: account administration, maintenance, monitoring, and revocation. Access Matrix - ANSWER - Uses rows to represent subjects and columns to represent objects with privileges listed in each cell. Account Harvesting - ANSWER - The process of collecting all the legitimate account names on a system. ACK Piggybacking - ANSWER - The practice of sending an ACK inside another packet going to the same destination. Active Content - ANSWER - Program code embedded in the contents of a web page. When the page is accessed by a web browser, the embedded code is automatically downloaded and executed on the user's workstation. Ex. Java, ActiveX (MS) Activity Monitors - ANSWER - Aim to prevent virus infection by monitoring for malicious activity on a system, and blocking that activity when possible. Address Resolution Protocol - ANSWER - A protocol for mapping an Internet Protocol address to a physical machine address that is recognized in the local network. A table, usually called the ARP cache, is used to maintain a correlation between each MAC address and its corresponding IP address. ARP provides the protocol rules for making this correlation and providing address conversion in both directions. (ARP)