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CISSP Operational Security

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






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






19. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix






20. 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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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






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






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






42. A replica of all allocated data on a disk






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting






48. 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






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






50. 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