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CISSP Operational Security

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






2. 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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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






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






14. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix






20. 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)






21. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting






22. 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






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






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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






37. A replica of all allocated data on a disk






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. Denial of service - one to one availability attack






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. 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.