ITS Network Security Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Assuring that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them - Correct Answers ✅Confidentiality Ensuring that the data being sent/received hasn't been tampered with - Correct Answers ✅Integrity Information or applications being readily available for use - Correct Answers ✅Availability (Digital) proof that an action took place between, so you can not deny that it happened. Proof could include audit logs - Correct Answers ✅Non-repudiation The opportunity for an attacker to attack your system (It's possible that someone could break into your house through a window) - Correct Answers ✅Threat The potential damage that an attack can have on your system (If someone breaks through your window, you may need to replace it) - Correct Answers ✅Risk An unsecured area in your system that can be exploited (Leaving the window open) - Correct Answers ✅Vulnerability 1 / 4
ITS Network Security Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) Providing only the minimum amount of privileges necessary to perform a job or function - Correct Answers ✅Least Privilege This can include having lights, fences or cameras on a building - Correct Answers ✅Site security The protection of a computer system (and it's network) and its confidentiality, integrity and availability. This can include physically protecting your computer from removable devices or digitally protecting your computer from different attacks - Correct Answers ✅Computer Security This can include CD's or USB's, which can pose a threat when someone sticks a malicious USB into their computer - Correct Answers ✅Removable devices Two doors on either side of a room, a person may gain access to one but not the next. Meant to physically trap an attacker and prevent them from leaving/entering the building - Correct Answers ✅Mantraps Procedures implemented to define the roles, responsibilities, and administrative functions. This can include creating policies and user training - Correct Answers ✅Administrative controls 2 / 4
ITS Network Security Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) An attack that occurs when a process attempts to store data in RAM beyond the boundaries of the fixed-length - Correct Answers ✅Buffer overflow A computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations; data gets created, but never deleted. - Correct Answers ✅Memory leak Can cause certain applications to stop working or function differently, and they require a host to replicate - Correct Answers ✅Viruses Typically traveling through networks, they cause your computer to act slower and don't require a host to replicate themselves - Correct Answers ✅Worms A program disguised to perform a certain tasks when really it can take control over your computer - Correct Answers ✅Trojan horses A type of software that collects information about you without your knowledge - Correct Answers ✅Spyware An attack designed to lock you out of your computer system until a sum of money is paid - Correct Answers ✅Ransomware 3 / 4
ITS Network Security Study Guide Exam Questions and Answers (Solved Papers) A software program that delivers advertising content in a manner that is unexpected and unwanted by the user - Correct Answers ✅Adware Malicious software that allow attackers to gain access to your computer and take control of it without your knowledge. They avoid normal login procedures by creating a backdoor - Correct Answers ✅Rootkits A way into a computer system without having to use a password - Correct Answers ✅Backdoors Attack methods that are new, so there are no defense measures available to prevent the attack - Correct Answers ✅Zero day attacks This attack causes users to be unable to gain access to a system - Correct Answers ✅Denial of Service (DOS) An attack that uses multiple zombie computers in a botnet to flood a device with requests. - Correct Answers ✅Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) A computer that has been taken over by a hacker, used primarily for botnets - Correct Answers ✅Zombies
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