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CISSP Operational Security
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1. Considered the most secure means of data sanititzation - commonly uses incineration or pulverization
physical destruction
degaussing
hybrid approach to password cracking
non-disclosure agreement
2. Dictionary attacks - directs the password cracking tool to use a supplied list of words as potential passwords.
RAID 4
RAID
dictionary method of password cracking
threat agent
3. Confidentiality attack on network traffic - involves monitoring packets as they traverse a network.
sniffing
man in the middle attack
teardrop
eradication
4. The actors causing the threats that might exploit a vulnerability
RAID 6
threat agent
RAID 1
clipping levels
5. DOS - Malformed packet - denial of service involved in sending a malformed ICMP echo request (ping) that was larger than the maximum size of an IP packet. Patching TCPIP stacks of systems removed the vulnerability of this DOS attack
ping of death
containment
incident response steps
high availability clusters
6. Administrative control - the sensitivity of the position being filled largely determines the extent to which this control is used. Try to uncover any information that may indicate a prospective employee will be unable to perform their job
DOS
background checks
RAID 1+0
threat agent
7. Have the ability to self-propogate - or spread without user interaction. more well known worms: Code Red - Nimda - SQL Slammer - Blaster - MyDoom - Witty
detection
worm
ping of death
clipping levels
8. Administrative control where employees are required to take a vacation. helps determine personnel single points of failure - detection and deterence of fraud - and the risk that comes with employees being unavailable for work. can also detect suspici
worm
mandatory vacation
eradication
password guessing
9. An online technique that involves attempting to authenticate a particular user to a system
reporting
password guessing
physical destruction
land
10. Two parties conspire to undermine the security of the transaction
threat agent
collusion
RAID 1
change management
11. Multi-raid - means that one standard RAID level is encapsulated within another.
threat vectors
parity
differential backup
nested raid
12. A hot standy - configuration in which the backup systems only begin processing when a failure state is detected
man in the middle attack
service level agreements
passive-active cluster
hybrid approach to password cracking
13. Define a minimum reporting threshold level and help differentiate an attack from noise - but can also cause false negatives
clipping levels
non-disclosure agreement
password guessing
differential backup
14. Any type of software that attacks a system or application - also called malicious code
incremental backup
active-active
RAID 5+1
malware
15. Deleting the file allocation on a storage device. important in security because it does not delete the data - it merely deletes the points that are used to find the data
RAID
change management
reformatting
privilege monitoring
16. Distributed denial of service - many to one availability attack
clipping levels
DDOS
macro virus
man in the middle attack
17. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix
principle of least privileges
need to know
non-disclosure agreement
zero day attacks
18. Incident response stage in which the process of understanding the cause of the incident so that the system can be readily cleaned and ultimately restored.
change management
eradication
RAID 0+1
reporting
19. Process: identify a change - propose a change - assess the risk associated with the change - test - schedule the change - notify impacted parties - implement - report the results to management - all changes must be tracked and auditable - a detailed
clipping levels
change management
DOS
threat vectors
20. Incident response stage in which the affected system(s) are restored to operational status. typically the business unit responsible for the system will dictate when the system will go back online. close monitoring is necessary
incremental backup
recovery
spoofing
SYN Flood
21. Trying all possible password combinations until a correct match between the hashes is found. may make use of rainbow tables which contain precomputed password-hash combinations
SYN Flood
brute force approach to password cracking
passive-active cluster
incident response steps
22. Malicious code that infects Microsoft Office documents by means of embedding malicious macros within them.
fraggle
macro virus
worm
spoofing
23. An offline technique in which the attacker has gained access to the password hashes or database
password guessing
threat agent
password cracking
RAID
24. Administrative security control that prescribes that multiple people are required to complete critical or sensitive transactions. The goal is to ensure that in order for someone to be able to abuse their access to sensitive information or transaction
malware
separation of duties
incremental backup
smurf
25. Term used for malware that is focused on hiding its own existence. Typical capabilities include file - folder - process - and network connection hiding. The techniques developed with rootkits are now commonly included in other types of malware
ping of death
password guessing
rootkit
service level agreements
26. Mirrored striped set with distributed parity (some manufacturers label this as RAID 53)
DNS reflection
zero day attacks
RAID 5+1
teardrop
27. A replica of all allocated data on a disk
full backup
differential backup
RAID 0+1
RAID 0
28. The medium that allows the threat agent to exploit a vulnerability
DDOS
threat agent
non-disclosure agreement
threat vectors
29. DOS - malformed packet - the land attack uses spoofed SYN packet that includes the victim's IP address and TCP port as both source and destination. This attack targets the TCPIP stack
RAID 0+1
land
recovery
eradication
30. Incident response stage in which the response team attempts to keep further damage from occurring as a result of the incident. also the phase where a binary forensic backup is made of systems involved in the incident.
containment
non-disclosure agreement
data remanence
physical destruction
31. Data that persists beyond noninvasive means to delete it. sometimes used to refer to residual data that remains after sanitization takes place
change management
threat vectors
data remanence
incident response steps
32. Striped sets in a mirrored set (minimum four disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity. The key difference from RAID 1+0 is that RAID 0+1 creates a second striped set to mirror a primary s
RAID 0+1
RAID 5
clipping levels
RAID 6
33. Masquerading as another endpoint. presenting false information - usually within packets - to trick other systems and hide the origin of the message. done to prevent an identity from becoming uncovered
threat agent
mirroring
containment
spoofing
34. Mirrored set - creates an exact duplicate of all data to an additional disk. allows for data recovery in the event that n-1 disk fails
RAID 0
incremental backup
RAID 1
physical destruction
35. Uses the dictionary attack but makes alterations to the word before putting the guess through the hashing algorithm
nested raid
striping
virus
hybrid approach to password cracking
36. Administrative control - a work related contractual agreement that ensures that employees - prior to being given sensitive information - will maintain the confidentiality and sensitivity of this information (also considered a directive control)
passive-active cluster
active-active
non-disclosure agreement
mirroring
37. Striped set - offers no data redundancy and is a poor choice if recovery of data is the reason for leveraging RAID
sniffing
mandatory vacation
collusion
RAID 0
38. Administrative security control used in MAC systems where access determination is based upon a clearance level of subjects and classification levels of objects. Compartmentalization enforces need to know which necessitates that someone requires acces
need to know
clipping levels
RAID 6
mirroring
39. Most often associated with providing an attacker with persistent backdoor access. Trojans provide desirable functionality that the user is seeking but also come with malicious functionality that the user does not anticipate
RAID 6
recovery
SYN Flood
trojan horse
40. Back up any files that had changed since the last full backup
physical destruction
change management
differential backup
man in the middle attack
41. DOS - malformed packet - the teardrop attack is a malformed packet attack that targets issues with systems fragmentation reassembly. The attack involves sending packets with overlapping fragment offsets - which can cause a system attempting to reasse
teardrop
dictionary method of password cracking
RAID 1
background checks
42. DOS - resource exhaustion - involves ICMP flooding. The attacker sends ICMP echo request messages with spoofed source addresses of the victim to the directed broadcast address of a network known to be smurf amplifier. As with most resource exhaustive
threat vectors
physical destruction
smurf
degaussing
43. OS - like the smurf attack - leverages a third party - the attacker who has poorly configured third party DNS servers queries an attacker controlled DNS server and cahce the response (the maximum size DNS response). Once the large record is cached by
mandatory vacation
background checks
land
DNS reflection
44. Incident response stage in which a final report is presented to management. the goal is to detail ways in which the identification could have occurred sooner - the response could have been quicker or more effective - and organizational shortcomings t
worm
DOS
man in the middle attack
reporting
45. Failover cluster - employs multiple systems that are already installed - configured - and plugged in - such that if a failover causes one of the systems to fail - then the other can be seamlessly leveraged to maintain the availability of the service
high availability clusters
principle of least privileges
clipping levels
RAID 1
46. Stipulate all expectations regarding the providing of a service and its quality. what is considered acceptable regarding things such as bandwidth - time to delivery - response time - etc.
high availability clusters
rootkit
service level agreements
mandatory vacation
47. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting
incident response steps
change management
RAID 5+1
collusion
48. A means to achieve data redundancy without incurring the same degree of cost as that of mirroring in terms of disk usage and write performance
RAID 1+0
RAID 0
reformatting
parity
49. Administrative control where in order to mitigate risk and uncover potential fraud - employee's job or job functions are shifted and changed
principle of least privileges
incident response steps
password guessing
rotation of job/duties
50. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks
mirroring
containment
RAID 4
zero day attacks