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CISSP Operational Security

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1. Uses the dictionary attack but makes alterations to the word before putting the guess through the hashing algorithm






2. Places the attacker between the victim and another system. the attackers goal is to be able to serve as an undiscovered proxy for either or both of two endpoints engaging in communication. Uses sniffing and spoofing. The capabilities of session hijac






3. Redundant array of inexpensive disks - goal is to mitigate the risk of failure of a hard disk






4. Administrative control that makes sure employees have the proper rights and privileges to perform their work. escalation of priviliges can occur as employees are promoted or change jobs - yet their access rights and priveleges to systems and informat






5. Malicious code that hooks onto executable code - and requires user interaction to spread. In addition to spreading - the actual payload of the virus - that is - what it is intended to do - could be anything






6. 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






7. 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






8. Introducing a magnetic field to magnetic storage media. a degausser destroys the integrity of the magnetization of the storage media - making the data unrecoverable






9. Striped set with dual distributed parity - allows for recovery if two disks fail






10. A replica of all allocated data on a disk






11. Any type of software that attacks a system or application - also called malicious code






12. Considered the most secure means of data sanititzation - commonly uses incineration or pulverization






13. Striped set with dedicated parity at the block level - employs a dedicated parity drive rather than having parity data distributed amongst all disks. allows for data recovery in the event that one disk fails






14. Have the ability to self-propogate - or spread without user interaction. more well known worms: Code Red - Nimda - SQL Slammer - Blaster - MyDoom - Witty






15. Means load balancing - each node in a HA cluster is actively processing data prior to failure






16. 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






17. 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






18. Define a minimum reporting threshold level and help differentiate an attack from noise - but can also cause false negatives






19. 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






20. Backup of any files that have changed since the last backup






21. Mirrored sets in a striped set (minimum four disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity.






22. Spreading data across multiple hard disks. increases performance and does create data redundancy






23. An offline technique in which the attacker has gained access to the password hashes or database






24. Data that persists beyond noninvasive means to delete it. sometimes used to refer to residual data that remains after sanitization takes place






25. The actors causing the threats that might exploit a vulnerability






26. Striped set with distributed parity - uses block level striping - writes parity information that is used for recovery purposes. distributes the parity information across multiple disks. allows for data recovery in the event that one disk fails






27. 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






28. 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






29. DOS - resource exhaustion - a variation of the smurf attack - the main difference being that fraggle leverages UDP for the request portion - and stimulates an ICMP port unreachable message being sent to he victim rather than an ICMP echo response






30. 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






31. Denial of service - one to one availability attack






32. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix






33. Used to prevent an attack from being able to simply guess the correct password by attempting a large number of possibilities






34. 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






35. Dictionary attacks - directs the password cracking tool to use a supplied list of words as potential passwords.






36. 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.






37. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting






38. 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.






39. An administrative security control that dictates a person should have no more access that the access that is strictly required to perform their job






40. 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)






41. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks






42. Two parties conspire to undermine the security of the transaction






43. 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






44. Striped set with dedicated parity at the byte level - data at the byte level is striped across multiple disks - but an additional disk is leveraged for storage of parity information - which is used for recovery in the event of a failure. allows for d






45. 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.






46. Multi-raid - means that one standard RAID level is encapsulated within another.






47. 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






48. The medium that allows the threat agent to exploit a vulnerability






49. 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






50. 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