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Security Control - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Any device or process that is used to
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reduce risk. ||||||




Technical (Logical) Controls - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Use hardware & software
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technology to implement access control. |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Operational Controls - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Security controls that are |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




implemented by people rather than systems |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Managerial Controls - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Security controls that provide|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




oversight of the information system |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Preventative Controls - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔controls that deter problems before |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




they arise
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Detective Control - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A control that is designed to identify any
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threat that has reached the system.
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Corrective Controls - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Eliminates or reduces the impact of an
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intrusion event ||||||

,Physical Controls - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Acts against in-person intrusion
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attempts



Deterrent Control - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Discourages against intrusion attempts
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Compensating Control - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Acts as a substitute for a principal |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




control



Security Intelligence - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔The process through which data
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generated in the ongoing use of information systems is collected, processed, analyzed, and
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disseminated to provide insights into the security status of those systems |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Cyber Threat Intelligence - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔The process of investigating,
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collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information about emerging threats and threat
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sources to provide data about the external threat landscape
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Intelligence Cycle - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Planning |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Collection & Processing |||||| ||||||




Analysis

Dissemination

Feedback



Intelligence Sources - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔must be timely, relevant, accurate,
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and reliable
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Closed-Source Intelligence - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Information that is obtained |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




through private sources, such as personal honeynets, and information from customer's
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systems.

,Open-Source Intelligence - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A method of gathering data |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




about a person or organization using public sources, such as social media sites and news
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outlets, or threat feeds and databases. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Critical Infrastructure - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔any physical or virtual
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infrastructure that is considered so vital that the incapacitation or destruction of said |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




infrastructure would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




national public health or safety, etc. |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Risk Management - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Identifies, evaluates, and prioritizes
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threats and vulnerabilities to reduce their negative impact
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Incident Response - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔An organized approach to addressing
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and managing the aftermath of a security breach or cyberattack.
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Vulnerability Management - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔The practice of identifying, |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Detection and Monitoring - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔The practice of observing |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




activity to identify anomalous patterns for further analysis
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Known Threats - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A threat that can be identified using basic
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signature or pattern matching. |||||| |||||| ||||||




Malware - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Any software intentionally designed to cause
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damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network
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, Documented Exploits - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A piece of software, data or |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




sequence of commands that takes advantage of a vulnerability to cause unintended behavior
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or to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data
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Unknown Threats - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A threat that cannot be identified using |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




basic signature or pattern matching. |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




Zero-Day Exploit - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔An exploit that has never been seen
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




before



Zero-Day Vulnerability - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A vulnerability that has never been
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seen before
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Obfuscated Malware Code - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Malicious code whose |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




execution the malware author has attempted to hide through various techniques such as
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compression, encryption, or encoding to severely limit attempts to statically analyze the |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




malware



Behavior-Based Detection - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔A malware detection method |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




that evaluates an object based on its intended actions before it can actually execute that
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behavior



Recycled Threats - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Refers to the process of combining and
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modifying parts of existing exploit code to create new threats that are not as easily identified by
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automated scanning
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Commodity Malware - ...,.🔹VERIFIED ANSWER **✔✔Malicious software applications that |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||




are widely available for sale or easily obtainable and usable.
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