CYBER SECURITY WEEK 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!

a subject or object's ability to use, manipulate, modify, or affect another subject or object. - ANSWER Access the organizational resource that is being protected. - ANSWER Asset an intentional or unintentional act that can damage or otherwise compromise information and the systems that support it. - ANSWER Attack Security mechanisms, policies, or procedures that can successfully counter attacks, reduce risk, resolve vulnerabilities, and otherwise improve security within an organization. - ANSWER Control, safeguard, or countermeasure a technique used to compromise a system. - ANSWER Exploit a condition or state of being exposed - ANSWER Exposure a single instance of an information asset suffering damage or destruction, unintended or unauthorized modification or disclosure, or denial of use. - ANSWER Loss the entire set of controls and safeguards that the organization implements to protect the asset - ANSWER Protection profile or security posture the probability of an unwanted occurrence - ANSWER Risk a category of objects, people, or other entities that represents a danger to an asset. - ANSWER Threat the specific instance or a component of a threat - ANSWER Threat agent weaknesses or faults in a system or protection mechanism that expose information to attack or damage. - ANSWER Vulnerability in the early days of computers this term specified the protection of the physical location and assets associated with computer technology from outside threats, but it later came to represent all actions taken to protect computer systems from losses - ANSWER Computer security attempted to define the multiple controls and mechanisms necessary for the protection of a computerized data processing system. Was classified for almost 10 years and is now considered to be the paper that started computer security - ANSWER Rand R-609 the industry st