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CISSP Security Architecture And Design

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1. Configuration management is also defined in the Orange Book BUT As a _____________________ and NOT an operational assurance requirement.






2. Discretionary access control is based on individuals and/or groups. It requires a separation of users and information and identification and authentication of individual entities






3. The security mechanisms and the system as a whole must perform predictably and acceptably in different situations continuously.






4. Succesfully Evaluated products are placed on?






5. Security Policies that prevent information from flowing from a higher security level to a lower security level are called ____________.






6. To ensure that the Trusted Computing Base is not tampered with during shipment or installation.






7. In both the Bell-LaPadula and Biba Models if the word "* or Star is used - _______________.






8. If a system initializes in a secure state and all allowed state transitions are secure - the every subsequent state will be secure no matter what inputs occur.






9. Mandatory access control is enfored by the use of security labels.






10. When the contents of the address defined in the program's instruction is added to that of an index register.






11. A is a form of EPROM - but its data storage can be erased and modified electrically by onboard programming circuitry and signals.






12. What Orange Book security rating is reserved for systems that have been evaluated but fail to meet the criteria and requirements of the higher divisions?






13. When a vendor submits a product for evaluation - it submits it to the ____________.






14. Which Orange Book evaluation level is described as "Controlled Access Protection"? - This class requires a more granular method of providing access control. The system must enforce strict logon procedures and provide decision-making capabilites when






15. Bell-LaPadula Model - ____________ : A subject at a given security level can NOT READ data that reside at a higher security level.






16. Reference Monitor is responsible for ______________ it compares the security labels of a subject and an object






17. The Red Book aka Trusted Network Interpretation (TNI) - provides _________________ for Trusted computer and communications network systems under the areas of assurance requirements






18. This class ("Structured Protection") requires more stringent authentication mechanisms and well-defined interfaces between layers. Subjects and devices require labels and the system must not allow covert channels.






19. An abstract machine which must mediate all access to subjects to objects - be protected from modification - be verifiable as correct - and is always invoked






20. In the Orange Book - functionality and assurance are NOT _____________ as they are in the ITSEC and the Common Criteria.






21. Each data object must contain a classification label and each subject must have a clearance label.






22. Simpler instructions that require fewer clock cycles to execute.






23. n this class more granularity is provided in each protection mechanism - and the programming code that is not necessary to support the security policy is excluded.






24. A logical form of separation used by secure computing systems - Processes are _____________ so that each cannot access objects outside its permitted domain






25. What does the Clark-Wilson security model focus on






26. The Physical memory address that the CPU uses






27. Based on The Bell-LaPadula model - because it allows for multilevel security to be integrated into the code.






28. The Bell-LaPaula Model's main goal was to ___________________ in an unauthorized manner. (Developed by the US gov)






29. Accreditation is also defined as an ____________________ by a designated authority that an information system is approved to operate in a particular security configuration with a prescribed set of safeguards






30. In both the Bell-LaPadula and Biba Models if the word "Simple is used ______________.






31. The assignment of a specific individual to administer the security-related functions of a system.






32. Subjects and Objects cannot change their security levels once they have been instantiated (created)






33. The total combination of protection mechanisms within a computer system






34. Which is a straightforward approach that provides access rights to subjects for objects?






35. The object reuse concept must also be invoked - meaning that any medium holding data must not contain any remnants of information after it is released for another subject to use. All data must be efficiently erased once the subject is doen with the m






36. The Bell-LaPadula Model is a _______________ that enforces Confidentiality aspect of access control. Formed by David Bell and Leonard LaPadula.






37. The Orange book does NOT Cover ________________ - And Database management systems






38. The *-Property rule is refered to as ____________.






39. According to the Orange Book - which security level is the first to require a system to protect against covert timing channels?






40. Documentation must be provided - including test - design - and specification document - user guides and manuals






41. In B2 Distinct address spaces must be provided to _________ - and a covert channel analysis is conducted. B2 adds assurance by adding requirements to the design of the system






42. Data in Cache can be accessed much more quickly than Data






43. The Biba Model adresses _____________________.






44. What does the simple integrity axiom mean in the Biba model?






45. Audit data must be captured and protected to enforce accountability






46. What are the components of an object's sensitivity label?






47. In B2 Subjects and devices requre labels and the system must NOT allow ________. No Trapdoors exists.






48. Which is an ISO standard product evaluation criteria that supersedes several different criteria






49. Contains an Address of where the instruction and dara reside that need to be processed.






50. Includes the security kernel as well as other security-related system functions that are within the boundary of the trusted computing base. System elements that are outside of the security perimeter need not be trusted.