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Network Security Basics
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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 32 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Ensures that the information is correct and no unauthorized person or malicious software has altered that data
glba
Decryption
integrity
sarbox
2. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
glba
confidentiality
Decryption
hipaa
3. Planning - recording - and analyzing and interpreting financial information.
Macros
Firewalls
Hackers
accounting
4. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act includes provisions to protect consumers personal financial information held by financial institutions
cyberterrorist
vulnerability
sarbox
glba
5. A loose-knit network of attackers - identity thieves - and financial fraudsters that are highly motivated - less risk-adverse - better funded - and more tenacious than hackers
cybercriminals
threat
Biometrics
Spoofing
6. A person or thing that has the power to carry a threat
cyberterrorist
hipaa
Computer Forensics
threat agent
7. Taking advantage of
Malware
exploiting
asset
cyberterrorist
8. Premeditated - politically motivated attacks against computers and networks - affecting non-combatant targets - by sub-national groups or clandestine agents
Spybot
Firewalls
cyberterrorism
Malware
9. Ensures that data is available to authorized users
Hackers
exploiting
availability
cyberterrorism
10. Unskilled users who want to break into computers to create damage. Download automated hacking software (scripts) from Web sites and use it to break into computers. They are sometimes considered more dangerous than hackers due to unlimited amounts of
accounting
script kiddies
availability
Proxy Server
11. A plastic card containing a microprocessor that enables the holder to perform operations requiring data that is stored in the microprocessor
Smart Card
asset
Decryption
cybercriminals
12. Hardware - software - or both designed to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing electronic information
hipaa
script kiddies
Firewalls
Hackers
13. Ensures that only authorized parties can view the information
Malware
confidentiality
Hackers
cybercriminals
14. A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft - usually by means of fraudulent e-mail
Spoofing
Phishing
cybercriminals
sarbox
15. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
threat agent
hipaa
exploiting
Spybot
16. Is a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to legal evidence found in computers and digital storage media. The goal of computer forensics is to examine digital media in a forensically sound manner with the aim of identifying - preserving - re
integrity
threat
Computer Forensics
hackers
17. Laws to ensure that there is honesty. 1. require the owners to sign the auditors note 2. penalties have become more severe 3. if you are on the board you are held accountable for what's going on in the company 4. limited CPA to only certain types of
sarbox
confidentiality
hackers
Hackers
18. A warning that one may do harm
Biometrics
threat
cyberterrorism
Firewalls
19. A weakness that allows a threat agent to btpass security
Smart Card
availability
cybercriminals
vulnerability
20. A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful
Biometrics
Trojan
Computer Forensics
Smart Card
21. The statistical analysis of biological data; the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics to verify the identity of a person
Biometrics
Hackers
hackers
Malware
22. An attacker motivated by the ideology to attack computer or infrastructure networks
threat agent
Trojan
glba
cyberterrorist
23. People very knowledgeable about computers who use their knowledge to invade other people's computers.
Hackers
glba
asset
Biometrics
24. (n.) something of value; a resource; an advantage
cyberterrorist
asset
Hackers
threat
25. A process used by hackers to steal usernames and passwords online.
glba
Firewalls
Spoofing
threat agent
26. The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text
RAID
cybercriminals
Decryption
hipaa
27. A computer system (or an application program) that intercepts internal user requests and then processes that request on behalf of the user.
Proxy Server
integrity
script kiddies
Malware
28. Are tools that allow a user to program repetitive tasks into the computer's memory so that they can be quickly accomplished with the touch of a couple of keys that the user has selected
Computer Forensics
Macros
Spoofing
cyberterrorist
29. Gathers information and communicates this information to an outsider via the Internet; can monitor your activity online
Spybot
hackers
asset
Smart Card
30. Software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the user's informed consent
Malware
exploiting
threat agent
accounting
31. A technology that uses multiple hard disk drives for increased reliability and performance
cyberterrorism
asset
RAID
cyberterrorist
32. Very knowledgeable about computers who use their knowledge to invade other people's computers
Phishing
Macros
hackers
availability