Unit 6 - Global risks and resilience
Crowdsourcing - correct answer-The process of sourcing ideas, services, funding or content
from the public in order to maximize the benefit of a large group's collective assets.
Cybercrime - correct answer-Criminal activity using the internet/computers/computing.
Cyber Security - correct answer-The protection of information systems, hardware and
software from theft or damage.
Drone - correct answer-Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
e-passport - correct answer-Passports containing a computer chip with details about the
owner.
Geopolitics - correct answer-The influence of physical and human geography (for example,
location, access to resources) on politics and international relations.
Profit repatriation - correct answer-The return of a company's foreign-earned profits or
financial assets to that company's home country.
Reshoring - correct answer-The relocation to the home country of a business's or company's
operations that were overseas.
Resilience - correct answer-The ability of individuals, communities or environments to
respond to shocks and changes while continuing to operate and/or improve under the new
circumstances.
3D Printing (Additive manufacturing) - correct answer-The creation of a physical object from
a digital model by laying down a sequence of layers.
Phishing - correct answer-The practice of trying fraudulently to get consumer banking and
credit card information, usually with an authentic seeming email.
Trojans - correct answer-Programs that look useful, but actually cause damage to your
computer. Can do it when collecting data, imitating real pages, mobile phone uploads. It
comes from the Trojan Horse used to infiltrate attackers into Troy.
Identity Theft - correct answer-The illegal use of someone else's personal information to
access the victim's financial resources.
Surveillance - correct answer-Close observation of a person or group (usually by the police),
now more and more through the use of technology to track a person's use of internet,
communications and documents.
Crowdsourcing - correct answer-The process of sourcing ideas, services, funding or content
from the public in order to maximize the benefit of a large group's collective assets.
Cybercrime - correct answer-Criminal activity using the internet/computers/computing.
Cyber Security - correct answer-The protection of information systems, hardware and
software from theft or damage.
Drone - correct answer-Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
e-passport - correct answer-Passports containing a computer chip with details about the
owner.
Geopolitics - correct answer-The influence of physical and human geography (for example,
location, access to resources) on politics and international relations.
Profit repatriation - correct answer-The return of a company's foreign-earned profits or
financial assets to that company's home country.
Reshoring - correct answer-The relocation to the home country of a business's or company's
operations that were overseas.
Resilience - correct answer-The ability of individuals, communities or environments to
respond to shocks and changes while continuing to operate and/or improve under the new
circumstances.
3D Printing (Additive manufacturing) - correct answer-The creation of a physical object from
a digital model by laying down a sequence of layers.
Phishing - correct answer-The practice of trying fraudulently to get consumer banking and
credit card information, usually with an authentic seeming email.
Trojans - correct answer-Programs that look useful, but actually cause damage to your
computer. Can do it when collecting data, imitating real pages, mobile phone uploads. It
comes from the Trojan Horse used to infiltrate attackers into Troy.
Identity Theft - correct answer-The illegal use of someone else's personal information to
access the victim's financial resources.
Surveillance - correct answer-Close observation of a person or group (usually by the police),
now more and more through the use of technology to track a person's use of internet,
communications and documents.
