JMU COB 204 CHAPTER 7
INFORMATION SECURITY
Information Security - ✔️✔️Protecting an organizations information and information
systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or
destruction.
Cyberterrorism - ✔️✔️Can be defined as premeditated, politically motivated attack
against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data that results in
violence against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.
Alien Software - ✔️✔️Clandestine software that is installed on your computer through
duplicitous methods.
Anti-Malware Systems (antivirus software) - ✔️✔️Software packages that attempt to
identify and eliminate viruses, worms, and other malicious software.
Audit - ✔️✔️A examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and
processing.
Authentication - ✔️✔️A process that determines the identity of the person requiring
access.
Authorization - ✔️✔️A process that determines which actions, rights. or privileges the
person has, based on verified identity.
Back Door - ✔️✔️Typically a password, known only to the attacker, that allows the
attacker to access the system without having to go through any security procedures.
Security - ✔️✔️The degree of protection against criminal activity, danger, damage,
and/or loss.
Adware - ✔️✔️Alien software designed to help pop up advertisements appear on your
screen.
Threat - ✔️✔️Any danger in which an information resource is exposed.
Exposure - ✔️✔️The harm, loss, or damage that can result if a threat compromises an
information resource.
, Vulnerability - ✔️✔️The possibility that an information resource will be harmed by a
threat.
Cybercrime - ✔️✔️Illegal activities performed on the internet.
Social Engineering - ✔️✔️Getting around security systems by tricking computer users
inside a company into revealing sensitive information or gaining unauthorized access
privilege.
Access Controls - ✔️✔️Controls that restrict unauthorized individuals from using
information resources and are concerned with user identification.
Identity Theft - ✔️✔️Crime in which someone uses the personal information of others
to create a false identity and then uses it for some fraud.
Intellectual Property - ✔️✔️The intangible property created by individuals or
corporations, which is protected under trade secret, patent, and copyright laws.
Trade Secret - ✔️✔️Intellectual work, such as a business plan, that is a company
secret, and is not based on public information.
Patent - ✔️✔️A doc that grants the holder exclusive rights on an invention or process
for a specified period of time, currently 20 years.
Copyright - ✔️✔️A grant that provides the creator of intellectual property with
ownership of it for a specified period of time, currently the life of the creator plus 70
years.
Piracy - ✔️✔️Copying a software program ( other than freeware, demo software, etc.)
without making payment to the owner.
Spyware - ✔️✔️Alien software that can record your keystrokes and/or copy your
passwords.
Spamware - ✔️✔️Alien software that uses your computer as a launch platform for
spammers.
Spam - ✔️✔️Unsolicited Email
Cookies - ✔️✔️Small amounts of information that websites store on your computer,
temporarily or more or less permanently.
INFORMATION SECURITY
Information Security - ✔️✔️Protecting an organizations information and information
systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or
destruction.
Cyberterrorism - ✔️✔️Can be defined as premeditated, politically motivated attack
against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data that results in
violence against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents.
Alien Software - ✔️✔️Clandestine software that is installed on your computer through
duplicitous methods.
Anti-Malware Systems (antivirus software) - ✔️✔️Software packages that attempt to
identify and eliminate viruses, worms, and other malicious software.
Audit - ✔️✔️A examination of information systems, their inputs, outputs, and
processing.
Authentication - ✔️✔️A process that determines the identity of the person requiring
access.
Authorization - ✔️✔️A process that determines which actions, rights. or privileges the
person has, based on verified identity.
Back Door - ✔️✔️Typically a password, known only to the attacker, that allows the
attacker to access the system without having to go through any security procedures.
Security - ✔️✔️The degree of protection against criminal activity, danger, damage,
and/or loss.
Adware - ✔️✔️Alien software designed to help pop up advertisements appear on your
screen.
Threat - ✔️✔️Any danger in which an information resource is exposed.
Exposure - ✔️✔️The harm, loss, or damage that can result if a threat compromises an
information resource.
, Vulnerability - ✔️✔️The possibility that an information resource will be harmed by a
threat.
Cybercrime - ✔️✔️Illegal activities performed on the internet.
Social Engineering - ✔️✔️Getting around security systems by tricking computer users
inside a company into revealing sensitive information or gaining unauthorized access
privilege.
Access Controls - ✔️✔️Controls that restrict unauthorized individuals from using
information resources and are concerned with user identification.
Identity Theft - ✔️✔️Crime in which someone uses the personal information of others
to create a false identity and then uses it for some fraud.
Intellectual Property - ✔️✔️The intangible property created by individuals or
corporations, which is protected under trade secret, patent, and copyright laws.
Trade Secret - ✔️✔️Intellectual work, such as a business plan, that is a company
secret, and is not based on public information.
Patent - ✔️✔️A doc that grants the holder exclusive rights on an invention or process
for a specified period of time, currently 20 years.
Copyright - ✔️✔️A grant that provides the creator of intellectual property with
ownership of it for a specified period of time, currently the life of the creator plus 70
years.
Piracy - ✔️✔️Copying a software program ( other than freeware, demo software, etc.)
without making payment to the owner.
Spyware - ✔️✔️Alien software that can record your keystrokes and/or copy your
passwords.
Spamware - ✔️✔️Alien software that uses your computer as a launch platform for
spammers.
Spam - ✔️✔️Unsolicited Email
Cookies - ✔️✔️Small amounts of information that websites store on your computer,
temporarily or more or less permanently.
