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CISSP Operational Security
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix
zero day attacks
eradication
smurf
separation of duties
2. Used to prevent an attack from being able to simply guess the correct password by attempting a large number of possibilities
RAID
sniffing
RAID 1+0
account lockouts
3. Two parties conspire to undermine the security of the transaction
RAID 5+1
SYN Flood
collusion
virus
4. 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
nested raid
dictionary method of password cracking
parity
5. 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
reporting
degaussing
data remanence
dictionary method of password cracking
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
physical destruction
DNS reflection
account lockouts
background checks
7. 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
RAID 0
rotation of job/duties
full backup
brute force approach to password cracking
8. 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
incident response steps
eradication
data remanence
spoofing
9. Uses the dictionary attack but makes alterations to the word before putting the guess through the hashing algorithm
land
sniffing
incident response steps
hybrid approach to password cracking
10. 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
change management
high availability clusters
smurf
DNS reflection
11. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting
incremental backup
incident response steps
ping of death
RAID 0
12. Striped set - offers no data redundancy and is a poor choice if recovery of data is the reason for leveraging RAID
land
RAID 0
account lockouts
RAID 4
13. Introducing a magnetic field to magnetic storage media. a degausser destroys the integrity of the magnetization of the storage media - making the data unrecoverable
ping of death
threat vectors
degaussing
non-disclosure agreement
14. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks
trojan horse
land
mirroring
physical destruction
15. 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
password guessing
background checks
separation of duties
rootkit
16. 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
parity
password cracking
need to know
RAID 6
17. 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 1
full backup
striping
SYN Flood
18. An offline technique in which the attacker has gained access to the password hashes or database
RAID 6
change management
rotation of job/duties
password cracking
19. 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)
parity
virus
non-disclosure agreement
sniffing
20. 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.
RAID 6
containment
account lockouts
threat agent
21. 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
data remanence
need to know
RAID
background checks
22. 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
data remanence
recovery
brute force approach to password cracking
man in the middle attack
23. 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
differential backup
land
mandatory vacation
threat agent
24. An online technique that involves attempting to authenticate a particular user to a system
RAID 5+1
wiping
worm
password guessing
25. Mirrored striped set with distributed parity (some manufacturers label this as RAID 53)
RAID 5+1
trojan horse
RAID 0+1
RAID 1
26. Distributed denial of service - many to one availability attack
detection
DDOS
principle of least privileges
nested raid
27. Striped set with dual distributed parity - allows for recovery if two disks fail
need to know
passive-active cluster
RAID 6
non-disclosure agreement
28. Backup of any files that have changed since the last backup
incremental backup
password guessing
degaussing
RAID 5
29. Incident response stage in which events are analyzed in order to determine whether these events might comprise a security incident. is the event occurring or has it occurred
detection
physical destruction
sniffing
DNS reflection
30. 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
RAID 6
smurf
threat agent
privilege monitoring
31. 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
collusion
worm
reformatting
password guessing
32. 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.
degaussing
RAID 5+1
RAID 3
service level agreements
33. 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
RAID 1+0
zero day attacks
RAID 4
DDOS
34. 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
RAID 3
brute force approach to password cracking
man in the middle attack
RAID
35. Multi-raid - means that one standard RAID level is encapsulated within another.
DNS reflection
differential backup
nested raid
zero day attacks
36. Means load balancing - each node in a HA cluster is actively processing data prior to failure
DDOS
worm
active-active
separation of duties
37. Any type of software that attacks a system or application - also called malicious code
malware
RAID 0+1
fraggle
recovery
38. 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
RAID 5+1
RAID 4
RAID 6
fraggle
39. Dictionary attacks - directs the password cracking tool to use a supplied list of words as potential passwords.
dictionary method of password cracking
high availability clusters
mirroring
land
40. A replica of all allocated data on a disk
parity
full backup
account lockouts
high availability clusters
41. 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 5
trojan horse
mandatory vacation
passive-active cluster
42. Spreading data across multiple hard disks. increases performance and does create data redundancy
teardrop
striping
separation of duties
physical destruction
43. Have the ability to self-propogate - or spread without user interaction. more well known worms: Code Red - Nimda - SQL Slammer - Blaster - MyDoom - Witty
smurf
sniffing
fraggle
worm
44. More effective data sanitization technique where data on a drive is overwritten
DOS
macro virus
non-disclosure agreement
wiping
45. 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
RAID 1+0
data remanence
hybrid approach to password cracking
man in the middle attack
46. Data that persists beyond noninvasive means to delete it. sometimes used to refer to residual data that remains after sanitization takes place
passive-active cluster
incremental backup
data remanence
RAID 1+0
47. 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
man in the middle attack
degaussing
collusion
RAID 5
48. Considered the most secure means of data sanititzation - commonly uses incineration or pulverization
need to know
reformatting
physical destruction
separation of duties
49. 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
non-disclosure agreement
RAID
virus
recovery
50. 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
password guessing
nested raid
smurf
sniffing