Exam 4: Ethics and Information Security: Mis Business Concerns: Module 2: Technical Foundations of MIS

A patent is the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, book, or video game.

Which of the following is a cost of downtime in addition to lost revenue?

A certificate authority is a trusted third party, such as VeriSign, that validates user identities by means of digital certificates.

A certificate authority is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature.

Which of the following is a cost of downtime in addition to lost revenue?

What is a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link?

To decrypt information is to decode it and is the opposite of encrypt.

What type of encryption technology uses multiple keys, one for public and one for private?

What are computer viruses that wait for a specific date before executing their instructions?

What reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites?

What is a new ransomware program that encrypts your personal files and demands payment for the files' decryption keys?

What is information secrecy?

Teergrubing is an anti-spamming approach where the receiving computer launches a return attack against the spammer, sending email messages back to the computer that originated the suspected spam.

What is the category of computer security that addresses the protection of data from unauthorized disclosure and confirmation of data source authenticity?

What reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites?

What is intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form and includes copyrights, trademarks, and patents?

Single-factor authentication requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password), what the user has (security token), and what the user is (biometric verification).

The best and most effective way to manage authentication is through ________.

White-hat hackers break into other people's computer systems and may just look around or may steal and destroy information.

Companies do not need a privacy policy for email because an employee's work email is private and cannot be viewed by the company.