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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. People very knowledgeable about computers who use their knowledge to invade other people's computers.
Malware
Hackers
Spybot
Trojan
2. Planning - recording - and analyzing and interpreting financial information.
hackers
accounting
asset
script kiddies
3. Taking advantage of
exploiting
Smart Card
cyberterrorist
Trojan
4. The activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text
Decryption
confidentiality
Malware
Phishing
5. 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
script kiddies
Trojan
Spoofing
Decryption
6. 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
Smart Card
hipaa
cybercriminals
exploiting
7. A warning that one may do harm
threat
Decryption
hackers
Spoofing
8. Ensures that data is available to authorized users
glba
Biometrics
Decryption
availability
9. A computer system (or an application program) that intercepts internal user requests and then processes that request on behalf of the user.
script kiddies
Phishing
Proxy Server
sarbox
10. A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft - usually by means of fraudulent e-mail
sarbox
Phishing
Malware
Proxy Server
11. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Computer Forensics
Spybot
glba
Smart Card
12. Premeditated - politically motivated attacks against computers and networks - affecting non-combatant targets - by sub-national groups or clandestine agents
cyberterrorism
Hackers
hackers
Trojan
13. (n.) something of value; a resource; an advantage
threat
Spoofing
threat agent
asset
14. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act includes provisions to protect consumers personal financial information held by financial institutions
glba
cybercriminals
cyberterrorist
Spoofing
15. A plastic card containing a microprocessor that enables the holder to perform operations requiring data that is stored in the microprocessor
Smart Card
integrity
Macros
threat agent
16. A weakness that allows a threat agent to btpass security
vulnerability
Spybot
Firewalls
Decryption
17. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
hipaa
Spybot
threat
glba
18. A person or thing that has the power to carry a threat
Computer Forensics
script kiddies
hackers
threat agent
19. 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
cyberterrorist
Computer Forensics
threat agent
Malware
20. A process used by hackers to steal usernames and passwords online.
Spoofing
glba
cyberterrorist
accounting
21. Very knowledgeable about computers who use their knowledge to invade other people's computers
hackers
confidentiality
threat agent
Malware
22. An attacker motivated by the ideology to attack computer or infrastructure networks
cyberterrorist
accounting
Decryption
hipaa
23. Software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the user's informed consent
cyberterrorist
exploiting
hackers
Malware
24. Ensures that the information is correct and no unauthorized person or malicious software has altered that data
Smart Card
integrity
sarbox
Hackers
25. Gathers information and communicates this information to an outsider via the Internet; can monitor your activity online
Macros
Biometrics
Spybot
hackers
26. 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
RAID
sarbox
glba
Smart Card
27. A technology that uses multiple hard disk drives for increased reliability and performance
accounting
RAID
exploiting
cyberterrorism
28. Ensures that only authorized parties can view the information
cyberterrorist
exploiting
asset
confidentiality
29. A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful
glba
Trojan
Spybot
threat agent
30. The statistical analysis of biological data; the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics to verify the identity of a person
Smart Card
confidentiality
Biometrics
Malware
31. Hardware - software - or both designed to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing electronic information
glba
Spybot
Firewalls
hipaa
32. 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
cybercriminals
Firewalls
Decryption
Macros