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Comptia Security +: Vocab

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1. Disclosure - Alteration - Destruction. These things break the CIA triad






2. Using ICMP to diagram a network






3. When you know something from a source - and can infer other related information based off of what you know - when you may not necessarily have access to that data normally.






4. The 7 layer model defined by the ISO. Memorized by 'All People Seem To Need Data Processing' and 'Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away'. Actually - the layers are Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical






5. 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






6. Involving the measurement of quantity or amount.






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






8. Systems that use a knowledge base - an inference engine - and general methods for searching problem solutions.






9. The intercepting of conversations by unintended recipients






10. The process of reducing your risks to an acceptable level based on your risk analysis






11. The real cost of acquiring/maintaining/developing a system






12. Internet Relay Chat.






13. Assuming someone's session who is unaware of what you are doing






14. The effort made by an ordinarily prudent or reasonable party to avoid harm to another party or himself. Deals with liability.






15. These cryptographic protocols provide secure communications on the Internet. SSL provides endpoint authentication and communications privacy over the Internet using cryptography. In typical use - only the server is authenticated while the client rema






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






17. Software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system - without the owner's consent.






18. In cryptography - encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge.






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






20. An attacker spoofs the source IP in a packet header - to make a ping request appear to have originated from the future victim's network - then the responding network responds in full force to these requests and brings down the victim's network.






21. Random Number Base






22. 'If you cant see it - its secure'. Bad policy to live by.






23. CISSPs subscribe to a code of ethics for building up the security profession






24. A birthday attack is a type of cryptographic attack which exploits the mathematics behind the birthday paradox - making use of a space-time tradeoff.






25. Defines the objects and their attributes that exist in a database.






26. 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






27. When a DNS server goes out to resolve a name - and gets the wrong response back - it caches the wrong address for the default DNS time period - thus poisoning the cache for that period of time






28. The act of identifying yourself. Providing your identity to a system






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






30. ('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






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






32. Same as AES Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - also known as Rijndael - is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government. It is expected to be used worldwide and analyzed extensively - as was the case with its predecessor -






33. When security is managed at many different points in an organization






34. A compact disc that contains data only accessible by a computer. All modern CD-ROM drives can also read audio CDs. It is possible to produce composite CDs containing both data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player - whilst






35. A network that mimics the brain






36. The idea is that a computer program may be seen as comprising a collection of individual units - or objects - that act on each other - as opposed to a traditional view in which a program may be seen as a collection of functions - or simply as a list






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






38. The attacker sends a SYN request to the victims machine and the victim machine allocates resources for that request and sends a SYN/ACK back. The attacking machine doesn't respond however - but instead sends another SYN and continues to do so until t






39. Reasonable doubt






40. Being able to control access to individuals very specifically - instead of lower in the OSI model where you cant set it so specifically






41. Someone whose hacking is primarily targeted at the phone systems






42. When one key of a two-key pair has more encryption pattern than the other






43. A technique to eliminate data redundancy.






44. 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






45. A meme and a joke are the same thing. e.g. When someone says to delete a file that is really just fine and they call it a virus






46. A computer program (or set of programs) that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language).






47. Project initiation - functional design analysis and planning - system design specifications - software development - installation/implementation - operational/maintenance - disposal






48. 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






49. A card that holds information that must be authenticated to before it can reveal the information that it is holding






50. Access control method for database based on the content of the database to provide granular access