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Information security - Answer Keeping data, software, and hardware secure against unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. Compliance - Answer The requirements that are set forth by laws and industry regulations. Example : HIPPA/ HITECH- healthcare, PCI/DSS- payment card industry, FISMA- federal government agencies CIA - Answer The core model of all information security. Confidential, integrity and availability Confidential - Answer All...

Which tool should an application developer use to help identify input validation vulnerabilities? - Answer A Fuzzer Which cybersecurity term is defined as the potential for an attack on a resource ? - Answer Threat Which security type deliberately exposes a system's vulnerabilities or resources to an attacker - Answer Honeypots Which tool can be used to map devices on a network, along with their operating system types and versions? - Answer Port scanner Which web attack is p...

CIA Triad - Answer Confidential - allowing only those authorized to access the data requested Integrity - keeping data unaltered in an unauthorized manner and reliable Availability - the ability for those authorized to access data when needed Parkerian Hexad - Answer Confidentiality Integrity Availability Possession - physical deposition of the media on which the data is stored Authenticity - allows us to talk about the proper attribution as to the owner or creator of the data i...

Controls that protect the systems, networks, and environments that process, transmit, and store our data are called _______. - Answer Logical Controls During what phase of the incident response process do we determine what happened, why it happened, and what we can do to keep it from happening again? - Answer Post-Incident Activity Something that has the potential to cause harm to our assets is known as a(n) ________. - Answer Threat What is the first and arguably one of the...

Muckrakers - Answer to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics The Jungle - Answer a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair. Jane Addams - Answer American social reformer and pacifist who founded Hull House (1889), a care and education center for the poor of Chicago. She shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Hull House - Answer a settlement house in Chicago, Ill., founded in 1889 by Jane Addams. Temperance Movement - Answer R...

Explain the difference between a vulnerability and a threat. - Answer Vulnerability is a flaw, weakness, or gap in a system and threat is exploiting a vulnerability. A key would be described as which type of authentication factor? - Answer something you have List five items that might be considered logical controls - Answer Firewalls, logical access control, passwords, encryption intrusion detection control What term might we use to describe the usefulness of data? - A...

C836 - Fundamentals of Information Security Study Notes

C836 - Fundamentals of Information Security

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