MSCS501 - Cybersecurity Synopsis Week 1 - ECPI University

Which is NOT most likely to initiate a cyberattack?

The Federal Information Security Management Act requires each federal agency to provide security for...

Communications protocol ensuring privacy between communicating applications and their users on the Internet

Facilitates organization-wide business needs

Contains a feedback mechanism to monitor and control operation

Information system and solutions built and deployed outside of the information system department

Interrelated components working together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information

Which is NOT part of competitive advantage?

Knowledge-based and attribute-based are both common approaches to IDS

Plans, designs, implements, and maintains the integrity of a system and data

Enables remote users to access computing and storage

Applies to companies that offer financial products

Something you know, something you have, something you are...what is it?

This is a self-propagating harmful program residing in the active memory of a computer

Pro: Enables businesses to test quick solutions. Con: May lack necessary levels of security. These refer to ___________

Structured set of related activities

Scrambles messages or data

Users have the authority to perform responsibilities and nothing more

What does CIA stand for?

Set of steps to follow to achieve a specific end result

What is the use of information technology to disable critical national infrastructure?

Minimum length for a secure password

The most important element of information systems

Applies to any citizen, national, or resident of the U.S. engaging in foreign corrupt practices

What's this?

Improves productivity of individual uses in performing stand-alone tasks

Vishing involves the use of _____________

A comprehensive display of performance indicators that reduces efforts to monitor and identify threats

A common symmetric algorithm used by the WPA2 security protocol

What is malware to secretly steal high-value data?

Intermediary between a web browser and another internet server

What stops a device until payment is received? Hint: It's usually demanded in Bitcoin

Which is NOT an attribute of an intrusion detection system (IDS)?

A manager's key role is to identify and use information systems to gain competitive advantage

A value applied to plaintext to produce ciphertext, which is required to decipher ciphertext

What helps to successfully introduce new systems into the workplace?

Which is NOT an attribute of a firewall

An information system is a means to achieve competitive advantage

Which is an attribute of a next gen firewall (NGFW)?

Enables people to work together effectively

Risk assessment, disaster recovery plan, security policies, security audit, and regulatory standards compliance