Security Network. IT/CS

Practice

Answer The following:

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Many organizations realize that one of their most valuable assets is their data, because without data, an organization loses its record of transactions and/or its ability to deliver value to its customers. Protecting data in motion and data at rest are both critical aspects of information security. Identify the one that is not closely realated to data protection plan.

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Safeguarding technology assets in organizations is important to be managed. To perform effectively, organizations must add ____________ based on the size and scope of the enterprise.

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A _________ is an object, person, or other entity that represents a constant danger to an asset. Therefore, to make sound decisions about information security, create policies, and enforce them, management must be informed of the various kinds of threats facing an organization, its applications, data and information systems.

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Many organizations create or support the development of intellectual property as part of their business operations. ____________ is defined as "the ownership of ideas and control over the tangible or virtual representation of those ideas." ____________ for an organization includes trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Once _____________ has been defined and properly identified, breaches to _______ constitute a threat to the security of this information.

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Deliberate software attacks occur when an individual or group designs software to attack an unsuspecting system. Most of this software is referred to as malicious code or malicious software, or sometimes malware. Identify the one that does not belong to the more common instances of malicious code.

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____ is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. _______ can continue replicating themselves until they completely fill available resources, such as memory, hard drive space, and network bandwidth.

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_______ are software programs that hide their true nature and reveal their designed behavior only when activated.

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_____________ is a on-self-replicating type of malware program containing malicious code. ___________ are frequently disguised as helpful, interesting, or necessary pieces of software, such as readme.exe files often included with shareware or freeware packages.

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Identify the one that is a common type of Trojan malware.

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There are numerous Trojan horse attacks. Among them, ________________ take down a network by flooding attack with traffic. That traffic comes from your infected computer and others.

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According to a report by Webroot, polymorphism was one of the trends of 2016 and 94% of malware found by Webroot was seen only once. Explain why certain malware was seen only once?

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Explain why virus and worm hoaxes are not dangerous.

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This threat represents a well-known and broad category of electronic and human activities that breach the confidentiality of information. When an unauthorized individual gains access to the information an organization is trying to protect, that act is categorized as a deliberate act of ______________ .

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Identify the biggest threat to organizations?

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Using the application of computing and network resources to try every possible combination of options of a password is called _________ attack.

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_________ is an attack in which the goal is execution of arbitrary commands on the host operating system via a vulnerable application.

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____________ is an attempt to gain personal/financial information from individual, usually by posing as legitimate entity.

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____________ is an attack that performs a redirection of legitimate Web traffic (e.g., browser requests) to illegitimate site for the purpose of obtaining private information.

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Within the context of information security, the process of using social skills to convince people to reveal access credentials or other valuable information to the attacker is called _______________ .