Exam 10: Enterprise Resource Planning and Collaboration Systems

Distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) attacks from multiple __________ that flood a website with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes.

Describe the important ethical concepts stemming from information technology.

Organizations should choose a(n) _________________ and recovery strategy that is in line with its business goals

A(n) ____________ computer use policy contains general principles to guide computer user behaviour.

Ethical concerns over employee monitoring occurs when the monitoring is unprecedented or overly intrusive.

If there is a security breech on your organizational information systems, which information security area is best suited to handle the breech?

_________ implies that contact will be made with only the people who had agreed to receive promotions and marketing materials.

The Trojan-horse virus hides inside other software, usually as an attachment or a downloadable file.

The biggest issue surrounding information security is the technical issue, i.e. technical safeguards to information.

Explain the statement "information has no ethics."

_________ have philosophical and political reasons for breaking into systems and will often deface the website as a protest.

What is a type of virus that spreads itself, not just from file to file, but also from computer to computer?

What floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes the site?

Fault tolerance is a computer system designed that in the event a component fails, a backup component or procedure can immediately take its place with no loss of service. Fault tolerance can be provided with software, or embedded in hardware, or provided by some combination

_________ filtering occurs when an organization uses software that filters content to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information.

What is the unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software?

The _______ of Death is a common type of DDoS and occurs when thousands of computers try to access a website at the same time, overloading it and shutting it down.

Who are those who seek to cause harm to people or to destroy critical systems or information and use the Internet as a weapon of mass destruction?

Developing the information security policies is the ________________ step for creating an information security plan.

Information privacy is about the prevention of collecting and sharing personal information.