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CISSP Operational Security

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1. 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






2. Detection - containment - eradication - recovery - reporting






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. 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






21. Attacks against vulnerabilities with no patch or fix






22. 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






23. A replica of all allocated data on a disk






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






25. 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






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






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






28. Writing the same data on multiple hard disks






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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)






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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






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






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