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CISSP Operational Security
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
collusion
principle of least privileges
recovery
virus
2. Mirrored sets in a striped set (minimum four disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity.
RAID 1+0
macro virus
need to know
DNS reflection
3. 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
parity
smurf
RAID 5
nested raid
4. More effective data sanitization technique where data on a drive is overwritten
wiping
need to know
dictionary method of password cracking
RAID 1+0
5. 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)
threat agent
active-active
non-disclosure agreement
containment
6. Administrative control where in order to mitigate risk and uncover potential fraud - employee's job or job functions are shifted and changed
physical destruction
parity
rotation of job/duties
rootkit
7. 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
spoofing
RAID 4
brute force approach to password cracking
password cracking
8. 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
RAID 1+0
separation of duties
full backup
land
9. Dictionary attacks - directs the password cracking tool to use a supplied list of words as potential passwords.
dictionary method of password cracking
spoofing
change management
virus
10. An online technique that involves attempting to authenticate a particular user to a system
password guessing
RAID
RAID 6
RAID 5+1
11. 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
macro virus
incremental backup
change management
12. 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
trojan horse
RAID 0+1
malware
differential backup
13. 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
password guessing
striping
RAID 3
reformatting
14. Two parties conspire to undermine the security of the transaction
collusion
RAID 1
DOS
nested raid
15. Means load balancing - each node in a HA cluster is actively processing data prior to failure
brute force approach to password cracking
reporting
background checks
active-active
16. 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
background checks
physical destruction
SYN Flood
fraggle
17. 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
fraggle
sniffing
background checks
privilege monitoring
18. 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
high availability clusters
virus
separation of duties
19. An offline technique in which the attacker has gained access to the password hashes or database
data remanence
password cracking
mandatory vacation
clipping levels
20. A replica of all allocated data on a disk
reporting
trojan horse
full backup
dictionary method of password cracking
21. 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
spoofing
mirroring
data remanence
teardrop
22. Define a minimum reporting threshold level and help differentiate an attack from noise - but can also cause false negatives
macro virus
RAID 5
clipping levels
change management
23. The actors causing the threats that might exploit a vulnerability
threat agent
clipping levels
DNS reflection
password cracking
24. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix
zero day attacks
data remanence
macro virus
wiping
25. Confidentiality attack on network traffic - involves monitoring packets as they traverse a network.
degaussing
sniffing
privilege monitoring
active-active
26. Multi-raid - means that one standard RAID level is encapsulated within another.
nested raid
RAID 5
privilege monitoring
DNS reflection
27. 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
collusion
fraggle
background checks
change management
28. Striped set - offers no data redundancy and is a poor choice if recovery of data is the reason for leveraging RAID
need to know
RAID 4
RAID 0
ping of death
29. Distributed denial of service - many to one availability attack
brute force approach to password cracking
data remanence
DDOS
privilege monitoring
30. 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
RAID 0+1
detection
privilege monitoring
principle of least privileges
31. Any type of software that attacks a system or application - also called malicious code
malware
parity
man in the middle attack
fraggle
32. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting
RAID 1+0
password guessing
DNS reflection
incident response steps
33. An administrative security control that dictates a person should have no more access that the access that is strictly required to perform their job
high availability clusters
principle of least privileges
RAID 3
service level agreements
34. Redundant array of inexpensive disks - goal is to mitigate the risk of failure of a hard disk
RAID
sniffing
worm
mandatory vacation
35. 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
reformatting
differential backup
DDOS
high availability clusters
36. Introducing a magnetic field to magnetic storage media. a degausser destroys the integrity of the magnetization of the storage media - making the data unrecoverable
degaussing
DDOS
RAID 0+1
reporting
37. A hot standy - configuration in which the backup systems only begin processing when a failure state is detected
high availability clusters
service level agreements
passive-active cluster
malware
38. 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
RAID 1
wiping
privilege monitoring
39. Data that persists beyond noninvasive means to delete it. sometimes used to refer to residual data that remains after sanitization takes place
high availability clusters
eradication
data remanence
dictionary method of password cracking
40. 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
wiping
fraggle
man in the middle attack
41. 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
mandatory vacation
DDOS
RAID 4
striping
42. 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
data remanence
DDOS
threat vectors
43. Have the ability to self-propogate - or spread without user interaction. more well known worms: Code Red - Nimda - SQL Slammer - Blaster - MyDoom - Witty
password guessing
wiping
dictionary method of password cracking
worm
44. 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
macro virus
teardrop
passive-active cluster
detection
45. Mirrored striped set with distributed parity (some manufacturers label this as RAID 53)
RAID 5+1
need to know
physical destruction
RAID 3
46. Denial of service - one to one availability attack
land
sniffing
mandatory vacation
DOS
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
passive-active cluster
spoofing
containment
DNS reflection
48. Malicious code that infects Microsoft Office documents by means of embedding malicious macros within them.
SYN Flood
differential backup
macro virus
eradication
49. 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
eradication
detection
need to know
spoofing
50. 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.
privilege monitoring
passive-active cluster
eradication
reporting