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CISSP Operational Security
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1. 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
macro virus
degaussing
RAID 0+1
collusion
2. An online technique that involves attempting to authenticate a particular user to a system
service level agreements
parity
recovery
password guessing
3. Back up any files that had changed since the last full backup
DNS reflection
virus
teardrop
differential backup
4. Confidentiality attack on network traffic - involves monitoring packets as they traverse a network.
clipping levels
teardrop
sniffing
hybrid approach to password cracking
5. Striped set - offers no data redundancy and is a poor choice if recovery of data is the reason for leveraging RAID
non-disclosure agreement
RAID 0
RAID
sniffing
6. Uses the dictionary attack but makes alterations to the word before putting the guess through the hashing algorithm
RAID 6
hybrid approach to password cracking
rootkit
trojan horse
7. 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
threat vectors
change management
RAID 5
man in the middle attack
8. 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
high availability clusters
trojan horse
privilege monitoring
sniffing
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
active-active
eradication
RAID 3
ping of death
10. 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
recovery
high availability clusters
data remanence
account lockouts
11. 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
RAID 3
teardrop
eradication
smurf
12. Administrative control where in order to mitigate risk and uncover potential fraud - employee's job or job functions are shifted and changed
RAID 0+1
rotation of job/duties
reformatting
teardrop
13. Mirrored sets in a striped set (minimum four disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity.
DDOS
man in the middle attack
data remanence
RAID 1+0
14. Redundant array of inexpensive disks - goal is to mitigate the risk of failure of a hard disk
striping
fraggle
RAID
collusion
15. Spreading data across multiple hard disks. increases performance and does create data redundancy
RAID 0
teardrop
striping
high availability clusters
16. An administrative security control that dictates a person should have no more access that the access that is strictly required to perform their job
land
principle of least privileges
RAID 5
non-disclosure agreement
17. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting
incident response steps
trojan horse
non-disclosure agreement
high availability clusters
18. More effective data sanitization technique where data on a drive is overwritten
incident response steps
brute force approach to password cracking
trojan horse
wiping
19. Data that persists beyond noninvasive means to delete it. sometimes used to refer to residual data that remains after sanitization takes place
data remanence
need to know
containment
threat agent
20. Used to prevent an attack from being able to simply guess the correct password by attempting a large number of possibilities
worm
high availability clusters
account lockouts
mirroring
21. A replica of all allocated data on a disk
full backup
separation of duties
teardrop
land
22. The actors causing the threats that might exploit a vulnerability
threat agent
detection
passive-active cluster
RAID 4
23. 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
man in the middle attack
eradication
smurf
wiping
24. Means load balancing - each node in a HA cluster is actively processing data prior to failure
active-active
change management
reformatting
mirroring
25. 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.
incremental backup
data remanence
non-disclosure agreement
eradication
26. 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.
background checks
service level agreements
account lockouts
macro virus
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
sniffing
ping of death
land
brute force approach to password cracking
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
RAID 0
differential backup
DNS reflection
teardrop
29. 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
separation of duties
RAID 4
RAID 1+0
virus
30. 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
RAID 0
DDOS
parity
mandatory vacation
31. 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
active-active
reformatting
rootkit
macro virus
32. Have the ability to self-propogate - or spread without user interaction. more well known worms: Code Red - Nimda - SQL Slammer - Blaster - MyDoom - Witty
password cracking
trojan horse
sniffing
worm
33. Dictionary attacks - directs the password cracking tool to use a supplied list of words as potential passwords.
RAID 6
dictionary method of password cracking
DDOS
full backup
34. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix
RAID 1
trojan horse
zero day attacks
SYN Flood
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
brute force approach to password cracking
reformatting
active-active
service level agreements
36. Backup of any files that have changed since the last backup
reporting
malware
parity
incremental backup
37. Denial of service - one to one availability attack
trojan horse
ping of death
smurf
DOS
38. 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
worm
reporting
service level agreements
39. The medium that allows the threat agent to exploit a vulnerability
threat vectors
striping
wiping
reformatting
40. Striped set with dual distributed parity - allows for recovery if two disks fail
parity
RAID 1+0
RAID 6
rotation of job/duties
41. 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
clipping levels
collusion
spoofing
land
42. 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
nested raid
virus
full backup
DNS reflection
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.
RAID 6
high availability clusters
incident response steps
containment
44. Any type of software that attacks a system or application - also called malicious code
RAID 5
malware
worm
land
45. 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
RAID 5
RAID 3
privilege monitoring
eradication
46. 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
high availability clusters
RAID 0
ping of death
RAID 4
47. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks
recovery
password guessing
service level agreements
mirroring
48. Malicious code that infects Microsoft Office documents by means of embedding malicious macros within them.
land
dictionary method of password cracking
macro virus
DDOS
49. 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
wiping
privilege monitoring
full backup
mandatory vacation
50. 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
smurf
worm
background checks
reporting