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CISSP Operational Security

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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. An online technique that involves attempting to authenticate a particular user to a system






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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






24. 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






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. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting






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






28. 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






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






30. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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)






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






41. More effective data sanitization technique where data on a drive is overwritten






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






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






44. A hot standy - configuration in which the backup systems only begin processing when a failure state is detected






45. Denial of service - one to one availability attack






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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