Exam 5: Protecting Information Resources

Which of the following is a physical security measure?

Confidentiality,integrity,and availability are collectively referred to as the CIA triangle.

A _____ attack floods a network or server with service requests to prevent legitimate users' access to the system.

After examining an incoming packet,a firewall cannot reject that packet.

Describe the process of vein analysis in biometric security measures.

_____ use a physiological element to enhance security measures.

In the context of security,_____ means using "people skills"-such as being a good listener and assuming a friendly,unthreatening air-to trick others into revealing private information.

In the context of security,social engineering protects the integrity of information resources.

_____ is software that secretly gathers information about users while they browse the Web.

Part of ensuring integrity is identifying authorized users and granting them access privileges.

Describe how blended threats work.

_____ outlines procedures for keeping an organization operational in the event of a natural disaster or a network attack or intrusion.

A level 2 security system protects _____.

Application-filtering firewalls are less expensive than packet-filtering firewalls.

_____ is a form of spyware that collects information about a user (without the user's consent) to determine which advertisements to display in the user's Web browser.

What is data encryption?

Which of the following forms of text used in an encryption algorithm is unreadable without a decryption key?

What is the McCumber cube?

A (n) _____ travels from computer to computer in a network,but it does not usually erase data.

In _____ encryption,the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt a message.