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Comptia Security +: Vocab

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1. An AAA (Authentication - Authorization - and Accounting) protocol for applications such as network access or IP mobility. It is intended to work in both local and roaming situations.






2. Data storage formats and equipment that allow the stored data to be accessed in any order






3. Enticing people to hit your honeypot to see how they try to access your system.






4. These can be used to verify that public keys belong to certain individuals.






5. Random Number Base






6. To not be legal (as far as law is concerned) or ethical






7. Packet sniffers (also known as network or protocol analyzers or Ethernet sniffers) are computer software (usually) or computer hardware that can intercept and log traffic passing over a digital network or part of a network. As data streams travel bac






8. Threat to physical security.






9. A unit that will detect motion for the purpose of setting of the alarms to alert for unauthorized access.






10. False Acceptance Rate - False Rejection Rate - Crossover Error Rate






11. The most popular computer language used to create - modify - retrieve and manipulate data from relational database management systems. The language has evolved beyond its original purpose to support object-relational database management systems. It i






12. The frequency with which a threat is expected to occur.






13. In a computer system (or cryptosystem or algorithm) these are methods of bypassing normal authentication or securing remote access to a computer - while attempting to remain hidden from casual inspection.






14. White hat l0pht






15. Non-repudiation is the concept of ensuring that a contract - especially one agreed to via the Internet - cannot later be denied by one of the parties involved.






16. Diffie-Hellman (D-H) key exchange is a cryptographic protocol which allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure communications channel. This key can then be used to encrypt s






17. The art of breaking code. Testing the strength of an algorithm.






18. The amount of users that the system can process in a given amount of time. A typical acceptable amount is 10/minute






19. In computing - the Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol authenticates a user to an Internet access provider. CHAP provides protection against playback attack by the peer through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and of a variable






20. The physical part of a computer - as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware.






21. Signal degradation as it moves farther from its source






22. A type of circuit switched telephone network system - designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires - resulting in better quality and higher speeds than available with analog systems.






23. A computer program that contains some of the subject-specific knowledge of one or more human experts. The most common form of expert systems is a program (like a wizard) made up of a set of rules that analyze information (usually supplied by the user






24. A technique to eliminate data redundancy.






25. Accepting all packets






26. Provides for less data leakage. Longer distance. Uses light instead of electrical impulse.






27. The process of training end users / employees in the ways and processes of security. This helps to mitigate risk to the company (if the employees know what to do) and also helps the employees to know what is expected of them security-wise - so that t






28. Residual physical representation of data that has been in some way erased. After storage media is erased there may be some physical characteristics that allow data to be reconstructed.






29. A form of binary to text encoding that originated as a Unix program for encoding binary data for transmission over the uucp mail system. The name 'uuencode' is derived from 'Unix-to-Unix encoding'. Since uucp converted characters between various comp






30. Dialing fixed sets telephone numbers looking for open modem connections to machines






31. Making individuals accountable for their actions on a system typically through the use of auditing






32. ('rotate by 13 places' - sometimes hyphenated ROT-13) Is a simple Caesar cipher used for obscuring text by replacing each letter with the letter thirteen places down the alphabet






33. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.






34. This is an attack in which an attacker is able to read - insert and modify at will - messages between two parties without either party knowing that the link between them has been compromised. The attacker must be able to observe and intercept message






35. A sandbox. Emulates an operating environment.






36. In computing - Secure Shell or SSH is a set of standards and an associated network protocol that allows establishing a secure channel between a local and a remote computer. It uses public-key cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and (opti






37. Affects the section of a floppy or hard disk that contains operating system and file information. Each time you start your PC with an infected floppy in the drive - the virus can spread.






38. In cryptography - it is one of the simplest and most widely-known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions further down the alphabet.






39. Involving the measurement of quantity or amount.






40. The EU spec. If databases exist - users are allowed to check data into them - allowed to change them if wrong - etc.






41. A number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing and deploying cross-platform applications. Java is used in a wide variety of computing platforms spanning from embedded devi






42. Communications that don't take the natural course of email (when you don't want eavesdropping to happen)






43. A network that mimics the brain






44. A little piece of information that is put on your computer to allow communications with the server and that also allow some servers to track everything you go to on the Internet






45. A hidden communications channel on a system that allows for the bypassing of the system security policy






46. A formula - practice - process - design - instrument - pattern - or compilation of information used by a business to obtain an advantage over competitors within the same industry or profession.






47. Once authenticated - the level of access you have to a system






48. Public Key Infrastructure






49. a.k.a. The Chinese wall. Nash Bridges - Bridge wall - Chinese wall. Dynamically changes access control to prevent unauthorized access.






50. Motivational tools for employee awareness to get them to report security flaws in an organization