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CISSP Operational Security

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1. 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)






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






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






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






5. Malicious code that infects Microsoft Office documents by means of embedding malicious macros within them.






6. 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






7. 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






8. Distributed denial of service - many to one availability attack






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






16. Administrative control where in order to mitigate risk and uncover potential fraud - employee's job or job functions are shifted and changed






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Back up any files that had changed since the last full backup






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. Confidentiality attack on network traffic - involves monitoring packets as they traverse a network.






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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






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






38. Mirrored striped set with distributed parity (some manufacturers label this as RAID 53)






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






40. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks






41. DOS - resource exhaustion - most basic type of resource exhaustive attacks - and involve an attacker - or attacker controlled machines - initiating many connections to the victim - but not responding to the victim's SYN/ACK packets. The victim's conn






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Striped set - offers no data redundancy and is a poor choice if recovery of data is the reason for leveraging RAID






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