Cybersecurity Concepts

Ensuring that access to information is restricted only to users, processes, or devices that are authorized.

Charles checks the company flash drives in a monitored facility to check that the information has not been altered.

Rain's business relies on constant email communication to communicate with her clients.

Establishing different ways to stay connected in the system and escalating privileges.

Reducing the ways software can be exploited by closing unneeded ports and reducing the amount of code running.

It is good to log into a computer as a regular user instead of an administrator to mitigate damage if virus is present.

The ability to connect devices such as keyboards, monitors, USB devices, and network cables to the Raspberry Pi.

Ensuring reliable access to the information by authorized users, processes, or devices.

Jason emailed sensitive company information to a customer in another country. The message was checked to be a true copy.

The gaining of "unauthorized access"

Sending emails so that no one can read it except for the intended recipient.

The less complicated something is, the less likely it is to have problems

When leaving a system, taking steps to make it too difficult to trace an attack back to the culprit.

Having strong passwords, antivirus software installed, and a firewall on your computer is an example of which concept?

Ensuring that information is a true and accurate representation of data.

Using multiple layers of defenses for protecting information.

The statement "complexity is the enemy of security" supports which concept?

Jake opened an email that said he won $5,000 and he ended up being tricked into downloading a virus.

Gathering publicly accessible information, searching social media, and focused online searches.

In order to ensure the secrecy of the data, the company has a rule to use only private servers to compute/modify data.