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Comptia Security +: Vocab

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1. They all deal with objects or identifiers that are used during authentication. They provide information that will allow the authentication to happen. There are many types.






2. Jumping into dumpsters to retrieve information about someone/something/a company






3. Chief Information Officer






4. Differs from ordinary composition in that it does not imply ownership. In composition - when the owning object is destroyed - so are the contained objects. In aggregation - this is not necessarily true.






5. A network that mimics the brain






6. Business Impact Analysis. A BIA is a functional analysis in which a team collects data through interviews and documentary sources. It documents business functions - activities - and transactions.






7. Relating to quality or kind. This assigns a level of importance to something.






8. False Acceptance Rate - False Rejection Rate - Crossover Error Rate






9. A computer program (or set of programs) that translates text written in a computer language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language).






10. An attack that is similar to smurf but instead of using ICMP (ping) it uses UDP as its weapon of choice. It broadcasts a spoofed UDP packet to the amplifying network.






11. Public Key Infrastructure






12. A set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. Artists ability to control their work






13. A system designed to stop piggybacking.






14. Defines the objects and their attributes that exist in a database.






15. Methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs - or defects - in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected






16. The intercepting of conversations by unintended recipients






17. In computer security and programming - it is an anomalous condition where a process attempts to store data beyond the boundaries of a buffer. The result is that the extra data overwrites adjacent memory locations. The overwritten data may include oth






18. Scanning the airwaves for radio transmissions






19. Rotating employee's job duties so that things can be checked that they are doing to make sure nothing fraudulent is occurring.






20. Degaussing is the process of reducing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field. The Degausser is what actually performs the degaussing.






21. 1 - 1024 are the ports registered to Internet applications. Ones on the test include: 20 - ftp 21 - ftp 22 - ssh 23 - telnet 25 - smtp 53 - dns 69 - tftp 80 - http 161 - snmp 443 - ssl






22. Not a picture - but rather vectors of your finger geometry with an acceptable variance built in to provide for slight changes.






23. A spoofing attack - a kind of attack in data communication - in which a third party tries to mislead the communication participants using forged information.






24. Confidentiality - Integrity - and Availability






25. ('rotate by 13 places' - sometimes hyphenated ROT-13) Is a simple Caesar cipher used for obscuring text by replacing each letter with the letter thirteen places down the alphabet






26. An international standard defining security assurance and functionality profiles. Replaced the TCSEC - ITSEC - etc.






27. This is the file on a UNIX system where usernames to password MD5 hash outputs are stored. The system uses this file to determine if the password entered for a given username is correct.






28. When security is managed at many different points in an organization






29. A remote authentication protocol that is used to communicate with an authentication server commonly used in UNIX networks. TACACS allows a remote access server to communicate with an authentication server in order to determine if the user has access






30. A mechanism by which connections to TCP services on a system are allowed or disallowed






31. Systems that use a knowledge base - an inference engine - and general methods for searching problem solutions.






32. A set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated - public disclosure of certain details of a device - method - process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which






33. Refers to the formal acceptance by organization executive management that they accept the residual risk associated with using a formally certified information system.






34. Dialing fixed sets telephone numbers looking for open modem connections to machines






35. A specialized form of software authentication that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems.






36. A type of circuit switched telephone network system - designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires - resulting in better quality and higher speeds than available with analog systems.






37. Computer Incident Response Team






38. The 7 layer model defined by the ISO. Memorized by 'All People Seem To Need Data Processing' and 'Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away'. Actually - the layers are Application - Presentation - Session - Transport - Network - Data Link - Physical






39. Procedures for when an employee is terminated to ensure that they are aware of their responsibilities and turn in all company property.






40. Refers to any of the various programs by which a computer controls aspects of its operations - such as those for translating data from one form to another - as contrasted with hardware - which is the physical equipment comprising the installation.






41. In cryptanalysis - a brute force attack is a method of defeating a cryptographic scheme by trying a large number of possibilities. In most schemes - the theoretical possibility of a brute force attack is recognised - but it is set up in such a way th






42. Basic Input/Output System






43. A network that uses standard protocols (TCP/IP)






44. A birthday attack is a type of cryptographic attack which exploits the mathematics behind the birthday paradox - making use of a space-time tradeoff.






45. Testing a company's network to test for vulnerabilities in their systems so that weaknesses can be fixed. This testing does not actually fix anything.






46. Same as a block cipher except that it is applied to a data stream one bit at a time






47. Refers to a cryptographic signature - either on a document - or on a lower-level data structure that signs an item electronically.






48. When you know something from a source - and can infer other related information based off of what you know - when you may not necessarily have access to that data normally.






49. In the broadest sense - a fraud is a deception made for personal gain






50. Method of authenticating to a system. Something that you supply and something you know.