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What does CIA stand for? - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability What is the CIA triad? - A guiding principle to help develop security policies in the workplace and at home. Confidentiality - -keeping the data you have hidden from unwanted eyes Examples: -passwords Integrity - -keeping our data accurate and untampered with Availability - the information we have is readily accessible to those people that should have it Risk - possibility of suffering a loss in the event of an attack on...

What is an attack vector? - A mechanism by which an attacker can interact with your network or systems Disabling unnecessary components serves which purposes? Check all that apply. - Reducing the attack surface, closing attack vectors What's an attack surface? - The combined sum of all attack vectors in a system or network A good defense in depth strategy would involve deploying which firewalls? - Both host-based and network-based firewalls Using a bastion host allows for which of the fo...

Why is normalizing log data important in a centralized logging setup? - Uniformly formatted logs are easier to store and analyze What type of attacks does a flood guard protect against? Check all that apply. - SYN Floods and DDOS Attacks What does DHCP Snooping protect against? - Rogue DHCP server attack What does Dynamic ARP Inspection protect against? - ARP poisoning attacks What does IP Source Guard protect against? - IP spoofing attacks What does EAP-TLS use for mutual authentication ...

What are some examples of security goals that you may have for an organization? Check all that apply. - to prevent unauthorized access to customer credentials to protect customer data from unauthorized access; These are super important goals. Safeguards or systems should be implemented to help achieve them. It's important to distinguish between a discrete goal and the mechanisms or defense systems that help you to achieve these goals. Defenses on their own aren't goals, but they allow us ...

How is hashing different from encryption? - Hashing operations are one-directional. Hash functions, by definition, are one-way, meaning that it's not possible to take a hash and recover the input that generated the hash. Encryption, on the other hand, is two-directional, since data can be both encrypted and decrypted. What's a hash collision? - When 2 different files generates the same hash digest. If two different files result in the same hash, this is referred to as a hash collision. Ha...

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts. Week5: Defense in Depth 2022(Answered correctly)

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts. Week5: Defense in Depth 2022(Answered correctly)

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts. Week3: AAA Security 2022 Test with complete solution

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts. Week3: AAA Security 2022 Test with complete solution

IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts. Week2: Pelcgbybtl (Cryptology) Test 2022 with complete solution