Exam 26: Information Security

___________ is a method for confirming users' identities.

Intrusion detection software (IDS)searches out patterns in information and network traffic to indicate __________ and quickly respond to prevent any harm.

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?

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

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

Which of the following is not one of the five steps for creating an information security plan?

_________ scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the information.

The most common type of defense within detection and response technologies is _________ software.

What is the most secure type of authentication?

What is social engineering?

Which of the following can be completed by encryption?

___________ attack computer systems by transmitting a virus hoax,with a real virus attached.

What identifies the rules required to maintain information security?

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

Who works at the request of the system owners to find system vulnerabilities and plug the holes?

A(n)_________ is software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage.

___________ diving is a form of social engineering when a hacker looks through people's trash to find personal information.

A(n)_________ is hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network.

Who breaks into other people's computer systems and just looks around or steals and destroys information?

Describe the relationships and differences between hackers and viruses.