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Comptia Security +: Vocab
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1. Access control method for database based on the content of the database to provide granular access
Java
Brewer-Nash model
Copyright
Content dependant
2. This is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communications.
Inference
WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
Senior Management
OLE
3. Basic Input/Output System
BIOS
Security through obscurity
Content dependant
Asymmetric
4. In computing - Secure Shell or SSH is a set of standards and an associated network protocol that allows establishing a secure channel between a local and a remote computer. It uses public-key cryptography to authenticate the remote computer and (opti
Phreaker
Compiler
SSH
Buffer overflow
5. 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
Patent
Multiprocessing
Routers
Dumpster diving
6. Enticing people to hit your honeypot to see how they try to access your system.
Non-repudiation
ARO (Annualized Rate of Occurrence)
Spoofing
Enticement
7. A card that holds information that must be authenticated to before it can reveal the information that it is holding
Nonce
Smart cards
Sniffing
Reciprocal agreement
8. Provides for less data leakage. Longer distance. Uses light instead of electrical impulse.
Fiber optic
ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
NAT
Fraud
9. Providing verification to a system
Authentication
Multiprocessing
Halon
Fences
10. Entails planning and system actions to ensure that a project is following good quality management practices
Quality Assurance
Rijndael
Clipper Chip
Qualitative
11. When one key of a two-key pair has more encryption pattern than the other
Penetration testing
Asymmetric
Dumpster diving
Back door/ trap door/maintenance hook
12. A gas used in fire suppression. Not human safe. Chemical reaction.
Audit Trail
War driving
Halon
Patriot Act
13. Hardware - software - and firmware elements of a TCB that implement the fundamental security procedures for controlling access to system resources
Security kernel
Polymorphic
Data Mart
Birthday attack
14. Diffie-Hellman (D-H) key exchange is a cryptographic protocol which allows two parties that have no prior knowledge of each other to jointly establish a shared secret key over an insecure communications channel. This key can then be used to encrypt s
Telnet
Diffie-Hellman
DMZ
Security Perimeter
15. Confidentiality - Integrity - and Availability
CIA
Enticement
Exit interview
DDOS
16. Systems that use a knowledge base - an inference engine - and general methods for searching problem solutions.
Crosstalk
Asymmetric
Aggregation
Expert systems
17. Also civil law
Tort
Warm Site
Guards
Data remanence
18. In cryptography - a substitution cipher is a method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the 'units' may be single letters (the most common) - pairs of letters - triplets of letters
Substitution
Twisted pair
TCSEC
Cryptanalysis
19. A site that is ready and available within minutes or hours to continue processing. This is a site that is fully configured and ready to go.
Authorization creep
Hot Site
Logic bomb
Private Addressing
20. These viruses usually infect both boot records and files.
Multipartite
Rolling hot sites
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
Diffie-Hellman
21. An agreement that you make with another company to be able to use their facilities in the event of a disaster. The least expensive - and not usually enforceable.
Reciprocal agreement
Passive attacks
DAD
Checksum
22. Internet Architecture Board. This board is responsible for protecting the Internet.
Skipjack
COM
Cryptanalysis
IAB
23. When security is managed at many different points in an organization
EF (Exposure Factor)
Virtual machine
Decentralized
Closed network
24. Refers to a cryptographic signature - either on a document - or on a lower-level data structure that signs an item electronically.
Sniffing
SLE (Single Loss Expectancy or Exposure)
Patriot Act
Digital signing
25. More discriminate than dogs
DOS
Trojan horses
Guards
OLE
26. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
DHCP
Keystroke logging
DAD
Block cipher
27. When an employee leaves the company - you want to make them aware of non-disclosures and non compete clauses - etc.
Software development lifecycle
PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)
Exit interview
COM
28. This deals with differences between plaintext password storage and transmission - versus encrypted password storage and transmission.
Cyphertext only
Caesar Cipher
Data Mart
SLE (Single Loss Expectancy or Exposure)
29. Degaussing is the process of reducing or eliminating an unwanted magnetic field. The Degausser is what actually performs the degaussing.
COM
CIO
Degausser
Twisted pair
30. Ethernet - Cat5 - Twisted to allow for longer runs.
Incentive programs
Enticement
Twisted pair
Throughput of a Biometric System
31. In classical cryptography - a transposition cipher changes one character from the plaintext to another (to decrypt the reverse is done). That is - the order of the characters is changed. Mathematically a bijective function is used on the characters'
Call tree
Hackers
Transposition
ROM (Read-only memory)
32. Same as AES Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - also known as Rijndael - is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government. It is expected to be used worldwide and analyzed extensively - as was the case with its predecessor -
Coax
Custodian
Cookies
Rijndael
33. Threat to physical security.
CIA
MOM
Attenuation
Sabotage
34. 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
Well-known ports
Noise & perturbation
Non-repudiation
Copyright
35. In computing - it is software that is embedded in a hardware device. It is often provided on flash ROMs or as a binary image file that can be uploaded onto existing hardware by a user.
Firmware
Phreaker
Open network
Cyphertext only
36. A mechanism by which connections to TCP services on a system are allowed or disallowed
TCP Wrappers
Privacy Act of 1974
Custodian
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
37. A network that mimics the brain
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
Cyphertext only
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)
Switches / Bridges
38. Not a picture - but rather vectors of your finger geometry with an acceptable variance built in to provide for slight changes.
Buffer overflow
Authorization creep
Fiber optic
Finger scanning
39. Distributed Component Object Model. Microsoft's implementation of CORBA.
Penetration testing
Boot-sector Virus
TEMPEST
DCOM
40. 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
Copyright
Hackers
Senior Management
Brute force
41. A little piece of information that is put on your computer to allow communications with the server and that also allow some servers to track everything you go to on the Internet
Classes of IP networks
Embezzlement
Out of band
Cookies
42. The intercepting of conversations by unintended recipients
Risk Mitigation
COOP
Senior Management
Eavesdropping
43. A form of redundancy check (a very simple measure for protecting the integrity of data by detecting errors in data that is sent through space or time.
Checksum
CIO
Aggregation
Social engineering
44. Driving around enumerating wireless networks with the proper equipment (antennas and the like)
Firmware
War driving
Honey pot
Back door/ trap door/maintenance hook
45. It can capture radio and satellite communications - telephone calls - faxes and e-mails nearly anywhere in the world and includes computer automated analysis and sorting of intercepts. ECHELON is estimated to intercept up to 3 billion communications
Echelon
ROT-13
Substitution
CIO
46. 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.
Open network
Fraggle
Crosstalk
Routers
47. Provides a means to obtain passwords or encryption keys and thus bypass other security measures. This can be accomplished through hardware or software means.
Embezzlement
Nonce
Keystroke logging
DDOS
48. Technical are IT implemented. Administrative items are things that HR implements. Physical things are things that are tangible.
Software development lifecycle
Hearsay Evidence
Technical - Administrative - Physical
Incentive programs
49. In cryptography - encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge.
/etc/passwd
DAD
Encryption
CD-Rom
50. An international standard defining security assurance and functionality profiles. Replaced the TCSEC - ITSEC - etc.
Common criteria
Risk Acceptance
Man trap
Brute force
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