Question 1

The chances of an organization having a data breach over the next two years is approximately ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  10 percent 
B)  20 percent 
C)  42 percent 
D)  28 percent 
A)  10 percent 
B)  20 percent 
C)  42 percent 
D)  28 percent D

Question 2

________ are considered the most dangerous of all employees.

Accepted Answer

A)  Financial professionals 
B)  IT security employees 
C)  CEOs 
D)  Data entry clerks 
A)  Financial professionals 
B)  IT security employees 
C)  CEOs 
D)  Data entry clerks B

Question 3

Which of the following countries was NOT cited by the Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace as being the most capable cyber actors actively engaged in economic espionage?

Accepted Answer

A)  China 
B)  Russia 
C)  Iran 
D)  United States 
A)  China 
B)  Russia 
C)  Iran 
D)  United States D

Question 4

Cookies are small text strings stored on your own personal computer.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Identify theft can (and does) happen to individuals, but it is not a worry or risk that corporations have.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Indirect costs due to data breaches are estimated to be:

Accepted Answer

A)  $3.9 million per incident 
B)  $150 million per year 
C)  $10,000 per incident 
D)  $190,000 per year 
A)  $3.9 million per incident 
B)  $150 million per year 
C)  $10,000 per incident 
D)  $190,000 per year

Question 7

More than 67 percent of data breaches come from hackers trying to make money.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Which of the following is FALSE about rootkits?

Accepted Answer

A)  Rootkits are seldom caught by ordinary antivirus programs. 
B)  Rootkits take over the root account of a computer. 
C)  Rootkits use a root account's privileges to hide themselves. 
D)  Rootkits are typically less of a threat than are Trojan horses. 
A)  Rootkits are seldom caught by ordinary antivirus programs. 
B)  Rootkits take over the root account of a computer. 
C)  Rootkits use a root account's privileges to hide themselves. 
D)  Rootkits are typically less of a threat than are Trojan horses.

Question 9

A distributed denial-of-service attach is the most common type of DoS attack.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What is a payload?

Accepted Answer

A)  Malicious software that blocks access to a system or data until money is paid to the attacker 
B)  A generic name for any "evil software" 
C)  A piece of code executed by a virus or a worm 
D)  A program that gives an attacker remote control of your computer 
A)  Malicious software that blocks access to a system or data until money is paid to the attacker 
B)  A generic name for any "evil software" 
C)  A piece of code executed by a virus or a worm 
D)  A program that gives an attacker remote control of your computer

Question 11

What is Trojan.POSRAM in regard to Target's data breach?

Accepted Answer

A)  Employee sabotage 
B)  Malware 
C)  A virus 
D)  A worm 
A)  Employee sabotage 
B)  Malware 
C)  A virus 
D)  A worm

Question 12

Sending packets with false IP source addresses is known as ________.

Accepted Answer

A)  spear phishing 
B)  sabotage 
C)  IP address spoofing 
D)  hacking 
A)  spear phishing 
B)  sabotage 
C)  IP address spoofing 
D)  hacking

Question 13

Which of the following is likely the most common criminal attack on individuals?

Accepted Answer

A)  Bank account theft 
B)  Credit card number theft 
C)  Spoofing 
D)  Spam 
A)  Bank account theft 
B)  Credit card number theft 
C)  Spoofing 
D)  Spam

Question 14

Black-market website programs reward researchers for finding vulnerabilities within their computer systems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following companies experienced the largest data breach in history in 2016?

Accepted Answer

A)  Amazon 
B)  Yahoo! Inc. 
C)  First American Corp. 
D)  Facebook 
A)  Amazon 
B)  Yahoo! Inc. 
C)  First American Corp. 
D)  Facebook

Question 16

Data breaches are rarely costly to a company.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

________ is a sophisticated computer hack usually perpetrated by a large, well-funded organization.

Accepted Answer

A)  An APT 
B)  A black-market websites 
C)  A bug bounty 
D)  Carding 
A)  An APT 
B)  A black-market websites 
C)  A bug bounty 
D)  Carding

Question 18

Penalties for hacking are significantly different if you are attempting to steal a million dollars or attempting to steal nothing of value.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

In click fraud, a criminal website owner creates a program so cookies are automatically downloaded to the computer's hard drive.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Russia, China, and Iran are quite active in cyberwar espionage.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

The chances of an organization having a data breach over the next two years is approximately ________.

________ are considered the most dangerous of all employees.

Which of the following countries was NOT cited by the Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace as being the most capable cyber actors actively engaged in economic espionage?

Cookies are small text strings stored on your own personal computer.

Identify theft can (and does) happen to individuals, but it is not a worry or risk that corporations have.

Indirect costs due to data breaches are estimated to be:

More than 67 percent of data breaches come from hackers trying to make money.

Which of the following is FALSE about rootkits?

A distributed denial-of-service attach is the most common type of DoS attack.

What is a payload?

What is Trojan.POSRAM in regard to Target's data breach?

Sending packets with false IP source addresses is known as ________.

Which of the following is likely the most common criminal attack on individuals?

Black-market website programs reward researchers for finding vulnerabilities within their computer systems.

Which of the following companies experienced the largest data breach in history in 2016?

Data breaches are rarely costly to a company.

________ is a sophisticated computer hack usually perpetrated by a large, well-funded organization.

Penalties for hacking are significantly different if you are attempting to steal a million dollars or attempting to steal nothing of value.

In click fraud, a criminal website owner creates a program so cookies are automatically downloaded to the computer's hard drive.

Russia, China, and Iran are quite active in cyberwar espionage.

Planning and Policy

Cryptography

Secure Networks

Access Control

Firewalls

Host Hardening

Application Security

Data Protection

Incident and Disaster Response

Module a Networking Concepts

Filters

Exam 1: The Threat Environment

The chances of an organization having a data breach over the next two years is approximately ________.

________ are considered the most dangerous of all employees.

Which of the following countries was NOT cited by the Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace as being the most capable cyber actors actively engaged in economic espionage?

Cookies are small text strings stored on your own personal computer.

Identify theft can (and does) happen to individuals, but it is not a worry or risk that corporations have.

Indirect costs due to data breaches are estimated to be:

More than 67 percent of data breaches come from hackers trying to make money.

Which of the following is FALSE about rootkits?

A distributed denial-of-service attach is the most common type of DoS attack.

What is a payload?

What is Trojan.POSRAM in regard to Target's data breach?

Sending packets with false IP source addresses is known as ________.

Which of the following is likely the most common criminal attack on individuals?

Black-market website programs reward researchers for finding vulnerabilities within their computer systems.

Which of the following companies experienced the largest data breach in history in 2016?

Data breaches are rarely costly to a company.

________ is a sophisticated computer hack usually perpetrated by a large, well-funded organization.

Penalties for hacking are significantly different if you are attempting to steal a million dollars or attempting to steal nothing of value.

In click fraud, a criminal website owner creates a program so cookies are automatically downloaded to the computer's hard drive.

Russia, China, and Iran are quite active in cyberwar espionage.

Planning and Policy

Cryptography

Secure Networks

Access Control

Firewalls

Host Hardening

Application Security

Data Protection

Incident and Disaster Response

Module a Networking Concepts

Filters