Exam 12: Information Security Management

What is a virus? Differentiate between Trojan horses and worms.

________ are false targets for computer criminals to attack.

A ________ pretends to be a legitimate company and sends an email requesting confidential data, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, account passwords, and so forth.

What are the three general sources of security threats?

Natural disasters present the largest risk for infrastructure loss.

In a locked room, maintaining the computers of an organization that run the DBMS is a part of ________.

A ________ is a person or organization that seeks to obtain data or other assets illegally, without the owner's permission and often without the owner's knowledge.

ERP, CRM, and MRP are examples of ________.

________ are the primary means of authentication and are important not just for access to a user's computer, but also for authentication to other networks and servers to which the user may have access.

In asymmetric encryption, each site has a ________ for encoding messages.

Firewalls produce ________ which include lists of all dropped packets, infiltration attempts, and unauthorized access attempts from within the firewall.

What are spyware and adware programs?

A ________ examines each part of a message and determines whether to let that part pass.

If the incident-response plan is not well prepared, there is substantial risk that the actions of well-meaning people will make the problem worse.

Technical safeguards involve the hardware and software components of an information system.

Faulty service includes incorrectly billing customers or sending the wrong information to employees, but not incorrect data modification.

If a backup of the database contents is made, the database is protected.

A magnetic strip holds far more data than a microchip.

________ are viruses that masquerade as useful programs or files.

Define encryption and explain symmetric and asymmetric encryption for computer systems.