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CISSP Security Architecture And Design

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1. Logical access control mechanisms are used to enforce authentication and the uniquenes of each individual's identification.






2. Certification is a Technical review that assesses the _____________ - where as Accreditation is management's Official acceptance of the information in the Certification process findings.






3. The _________________ specified in the Orange Book are: System architecture - System integrity - Covert channel analysis - Trusted facility management and Trusted recovery.






4. Mandatory access control is enfored by the use of security labels.






5. Contains an Address of where the instruction and dara reside that need to be processed.






6. If a system initializes in a secure state and all allowed state transitions are secure - the every subsequent state will be secure no matter what inputs occur.






7. What is called the formal acceptance of the adequacy of a system's overall security by management?






8. Verification Protection






9. Which would be designated as objects on a MAC system?






10. Each data object must contain a classification label and each subject must have a clearance label.






11. Which describe a condition when RAM and Secondary storage are used together?






12. When the contents of the address defined in the program's instruction is added to that of an index register.






13. Involves sharing the processor amoung all ready processes






14. What access control technique is also known as multilevel security?






15. A set of objects that a subject is able to access






16. When a vendor submits a product for evaluation - it submits it to the ____________.






17. For a subject to have read access to an object in a Multi-Level Security Policy - it is necessary that the subject's sensitivity label must ____________________.

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18. Discretionary access control is based on individuals and/or groups. It requires a separation of users and information and identification and authentication of individual entities






19. Which addresses a portion of the primary memory by specifying the actual address of the memory location?






20. Data in Cache can be accessed much more quickly than Data






21. Bell-LaPadula Model -______________: A subject in a given security level can NOT WRITE information to a LOWER security level.






22. Buffer overflows occurs when a program or process tries to store more data in a _____________ than it was intended to hold.






23. Components considered as part of the Trusted Computing Base (from the Orange Book) are?






24. The reference monitor is an access control concept - Referring to ________________ that mediates all accesses to objects by subjects based on information in an access control database.






25. Security is made up of: System administration - ________ - installation and configuration mechanisms within the environment - and other security issues.






26. Bell-LaPadula - ______________: This rule is based on named subjects and objects. It specifies that specific permissions allow a subject to pass on permissions to pass on permissions at its own discretion. These permissions are stored in an access ma






27. What is defined as the hardware - firmware and software elements of a trusted computing base that implement the reference monitor concept?






28. The centerpiece of the DoD Rainbow Series publications.Developed by the National Computer Security Center (NCSC)?






29. What model use an access control triples and requires that the system maintain separation of duty ?






30. Which is an ISO standard product evaluation criteria that supersedes several different criteria






31. Security Labels are not required until __________; thus C2 does not require security labels but B1 does






32. A process that resides in a privileged domain to be able to execute its instructions and process its data with the assurance that programs in a different domain can NOT negatively affect its environment.






33. Happen because input data is not checked for appropriate length at time of input






34. According to the Orange Book - trusted facility management is not required for which security levels?






35. A type of memory used for High-speed writing and reading activities.






36. Bell-LaPadula Model - ____________ : A subject at a given security level can NOT READ data that reside at a higher security level.






37. Applications and user activity






38. Which can be used as a covert channel?






39. In the Bell-LaPadula Model the Object's Label contains ___________________.






40. When a portion of primary memory is accessed by specifying the actual address of the memory location






41. In access control terms - the word "dominate" refers to ___________.






42. Which TCSEC level first addresses object reuse?






43. The TCB is the ________________ within a computer system that work together to enforce a security policy.






44. Access control labels must be associated properly with objects.






45. The Security Kernel is the Core of The TCB and is the _____________ to building trusted computing systems.






46. An organization within the National Security Agency (NSA) is responsible for Evaluating computer systems and products. The Trusted Product Evaluation program (TPEP) oversees the testing by approved entities of commercial products against a specific s






47. Includes the security kernel as well as other security-related system functions that are within the boundary of the trusted computing base. System elements that are outside of the security perimeter need not be trusted.






48. In Access Control terms it means to be higher than or equal to. In the Bell-Lapadula Model - this is refered to as the dominance relation - which is the relationship of the subject's clearance to the object's classification

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49. What does the simple integrity axiom mean in the Biba model?






50. Trusted facility management is an assurance requirement only for ________________.