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Build a strong foundation in cybersecurity principles with WGU Fundamentals of Information Security Study Guide Lecture Summary and Practice Questions with solution updated 2025/ 2026. This comprehensive resource covers core information security concepts including confidentiality, integrity, and availability, threat types, risk management, cryptography basics, network security controls, authentication methods, and security policies with clear explanations and practice questions designed to help WGU students improve understanding, reinforce lecture material, and succeed in information security assessments and exams.

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Information security keeping data, software, and hardware secure against unauthorized access, use,
disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction


Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of HIPPA
1996


Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical HITECH
Health Act


Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS


Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA


What is CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability


Confidentiality allowing only those authorized to access the data requested


Integrity Keeping data unaltered by accidental or malicious intent


Availability To access data when needed


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Parkerian hexad A model that adds three more principles to the CIA triad: possession/control,
utility, and authenticity


Possession Refers to the physical disposition of the media on which the data is stored


Authenticity Allows you to say whether you've attributed the data in question to the proper
owner or creator


Utility Refers to how useful the data is to you


The four categories of attacks Interception, Interruption, Modification, Fabrication


Interception Allows unauthorized users to access you data, applications, or environments.
Primarily attacks against confidentiality


Modification attacks that involve tampering with your assets. Primarily attacks Integrity and but
can affect Availability


Interruption attacks that cause your assets to become unusable or unavailable to you
temporary or permanent basis. Primarily attacks Integrity and but can affect
Availability

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Fabrication attacks that involve generating data, processes, communications, or other similar
activities with a system. Primarily attacks Integrity and but can affect Availability


Risk the likelihood that something bad will happen


Threats something that has potential to cause harm


Vulnerabilities Weaknesses, or holes, that threats can exploit to cause you harm.


Impact An additional step that takes into account the value of the asset being threatened
and uses it to calculate risk


The three different categories of controls Physical, technical/logical, and administrative


Physical controls To protect the physical environment in which your systems sit or where your data
is stored


Technical/logical controls Protects the system, networks and environments that process, transmit, and store
your data. (firewalls, AV, IDS, and IPS)




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