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CISSP Security Architecture And Design
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1. Bell-LaPadula Model -______________: A subject in a given security level can NOT WRITE information to a LOWER security level.
Basic Security Theorem (used in computer science) definition
The *-Property rule (Star property)
A Layered Operating System Architecure
Ring 3
2. There is only only one class in Division D. Reserved for systems that have been evaluated but fail to meet the criteria and requirements of the higher divisions.
Division B - Mandatory Protection Architecture
Security Policy
Division D - Minimal Protection
The security perimeter
3. A process that resides in a privileged domain to be able to execute its instructions and process its data with the assurance that programs in a different domain can NOT negatively affect its environment.
In C2 - Controlled Access Protection environment
Execution Domain
Ring 3
Mandatory access control
4. The hardware - firmware and software elements of a trusted computing base that implement the reference monitor concept.
The security kernel
Life Cycle Assurance Requirement
In C2 - Controlled Access Protection environment
Orange Book B
5. Individual subjects must be uniquely identified.
Ring 2
Identification - Orange Book
Division D - Minimal Protection
A lattice of Intergrity Levels
6. Remaining parts of the operating system
Government and military applications
Basic Security Theorem (used in computer science) definition
B2 - Structured Protection
Ring 1
7. Based on The Bell-LaPadula model - because it allows for multilevel security to be integrated into the code.
Logical addresses
*-Integrity Axiom
All Mandatory Access Control (MAC) systems
Security mechanisms and evalautes their effectivenes
8. For rhe type of environment that processes sensitive data that require a higher degree of security. It requires systems that are relatively resistant to peneration and compromise
The National Computer Security Center (NCSC)
B2 rating
Disclosure of residual data
Execution Domain
9. What is defined as the hardware - firmware and software elements of a trusted computing base that implement the reference monitor concept?
Mandatory access control
C2
A security kernel
A Limit Register (Memory Management)
10. This type of environment is highly secured environment that processes very sensitive information. It requires systems that are highly resistant to penetration.
Multilevel Security Policies
B3 - Rating
Operational assurance requirements
B1 - Labeled Security rating
11. In the Bell-LaPadula Model the Object's Label contains ___________________.
NOT Integrity
The National Computer Security Center (NCSC)
Its classification label (Top Secret - Secret or confidential)
*-Integrity Axiom
12. Which can be used as a covert channel?
Storage and timing
Clark-Wilson
Trusted Network Interpretation (TNI)
Pagefile.sys file
13. Discretionary protection
Implement software or systems in a production environment
C2 - Controlled Access Protection
Orange Book C
State machine model
14. Applications and user activity
Attributable data
Ring 3
Types of covert channels
First evaluation class
15. Buffer overflows occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a _____________ than it was intended to hold.
Security Policy
Constrained
Buffer (temporary data storage area)
Assigned labels
16. Certification is a Technical review that assesses the _____________ - where as Accreditation is management's Official acceptance of the information in the Certification process findings.
Its classification label (Top Secret - Secret or confidential)
Continuous protection - O/B
Security mechanisms and evalautes their effectivenes
The Clark Wilson integrity model
17. If an operating system permits executable objects to be used sequentially by multiple users without a refresh of the objects - what security problem is most likely to exist?
Polyinstantiation
Disclosure of residual data
Cache Memory
Need-to-know
18. In Access Control terms it means to be higher than or equal to. In the Bell-Lapadula Model - this is refered to as the dominance relation - which is the relationship of the subject's clearance to the object's classification
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19. B1 is also called "Labeled Security" and each data object must have a classification label and each subject a clearance label. On each access attempt - the classification and clearance are checked to verify that the access is permissible.
Orange Book - B1
Continuous protection - O/B
Dedicated Security Mode
*-Integrity Axiom
20. Mediates all access and Functions between subjects and objects.
Division B - Mandatory Protection Architecture
The Security Kernel
The Evaluated Products List (EPL) with their corresponding rating
An abstract machine
21. Which is a straightforward approach that provides access rights to subjects for objects?
B2
Certification
B3 - Security Domains
Access Matrix model
22. What prevents a process from accessing another process' data?
Logical addresses
Division C - Discretionary Protection
Multitasking
Process isolation
23. As per FDA data should be ______________________________.
Need-to-know
No write down
The Monolithic Operation system Architecture
Attributable - original - accurate - contemporaneous and legible
24. According to the Orange Book - trusted facility management is not required for which security levels?
Orange Book - D
Controlling unauthorized downgrading of information
Need-to-know
B1
25. 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
The security perimeter
Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM)
Polyinstantiation
C2 - Controlled Access Protection
26. The total(sum)combination of protection mechanisms within a computer system. The TCB includes hardware - software - and firmware.
Process isolation
The National Computer Security Center (NCSC)
The Trusted Computing Base (TCB)
Real storage
27. The Biba Model - ______________: A Subject cannot write data to an object at a higher integrity level (No write Up)
C1 - Discrection Security Protection is a type of environment
Stored in Reak Memory
Invocation Property
*-Integrity Axiom
28. Developed after the Bell-LaPadula model. Its a state machine model and is very similar to the Bell-LaPadula Model.
Stored in Reak Memory
Indexed addressing
The Biba Model
B2
29. In which users are processing information at the same sensitivity level; thus - strict access control and auditing measures are not required. It would be a trusted envirnment with low security concerns.
Clark-Wilson Model
Implement software or systems in a production environment
C1 - Discrection Security Protection is a type of environment
Clark-Wilson
30. Which in the Orange Book ratings represents the highest level of trust?
Swap Space
B2
A Base Register (Memory Management)
Pagefile.sys file
31. In B2 Subjects and devices requre labels and the system must NOT allow ________. No Trapdoors exists.
Covert channels
Administrative declaration
B3
Totality of protection mechanisms
32. Happen because input data is not checked for appropriate length at time of input
Buffer overflows
Identification - Orange Book
Covert channels
Indexed addressing
33. Users are trusted but a certain level of accountability is required. C2 over is seen as the most reasonable class for commmercial applications - but the level of protection is still relatively weak.
*-Integrity Axiom
Execution Domain
In C2 - Controlled Access Protection environment
Access control to the objects by the subjects
34. Execute one instruction at a time.
C1
Polyinstantiation
Scalar processors
Security Policy - Orange Book
35. Bell-LaPadula Model - ______________: A subject that has read and write capabilities can only perform those functions at the same security level - nothing higher and nothing lower.
The Strong star property rule
Division B - Mandatory Protection
Execution Domain
Documentation - Orange Book
36. The *-Property rule is refered to as ____________.
Clark-Wilson
Ring 3
The "No write Down" Rule
Orange Book - B3
37. Accreditation is the authorization by management to _____________________. This authorization may be either provisional or full.
The Common Criteria
Dominate the object's sensitivity label
Implement software or systems in a production environment
Dedicated Security Mode
38. In access control terms - the word "dominate" refers to ___________.
Trusted facility management
Higher or equal to access class
State machine model
Orange Book - B2
39. A domain of trust that shares a single security policy and single management
D
Files - directories and devices
Division D - Minimal Protection
A security domain
40. The security kernel is the mechanism that _____________ of the reference monitor concept.
Trusted facility management
Trusted Distribution
'Dominate'
Enforces the rules
41. Which Orange Book evaluation level is described as "Verified Design"?
Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC)
The Clark Wilson integrity model
A1
The Red Book
42. The Policy must be explicit and well defined and enforced by the mechanisms within the system
Continuous protection - O/B
The *-Property rule (Star property)
Types of covert channels
Security Policy - Orange Book
43. Which TCSEC level first addresses object reuse?
Higher or equal to access class
Simple Integrity Axiom
The rule is talking about "Reading"
C2
44. The reserved hard drive space used to Extend RAM capabilities. Windows system use the pagefile.sys file to reserve this space
No read up
Swap Space
Scalar processors
The TCSEC - Aka Orange Book
45. I/O drivers and utilities
Orange Book ratings
Ring 2
C2 - Controlled Access Protection
Cache Memory
46. Permits a database to have two records that are identical except for Their classifications
Scalar processors
Polyinstantiation
C1 - Discretionary Security Protection
Life-cycle assurance - O/B
47. The reference monitor must mediate all access - _____________ - be verifiable as correct - and must always be invoked.
Orange Book - D
Relative Addresses
A Domain
Be protected from modification
48. A channel within a computer system or network that is designed for the authorized transfer of information is identified as a(n)?
The *-Property rule (Star property)
Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM)
Overt channel
Subject to Object Model
49. Bell-LaPadula - ______________: This rule is based on named subjects and objects. It specifies that specific permissions allow a subject to pass on permissions to pass on permissions at its own discretion. These permissions are stored in an access ma
Discretionary Security Property (ds-property)
Orange Book - D
A1 - Rating
Orange Book interpretations
50. Which uses Protection Profiles and Security Targets?
International Standard 15408
Networks and Communications
Logical addresses
Continuous protection - O/B
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