Ethics of Cybersecurity - Exam 1
How can a company ensure personnel security?
Be aware of information security threats and concerns. Be aware of the responsibilities and liabilities with regard to information security
What does the term BYOD stand for?
Bring your own device (BYOD)
an effective security governance program coveys a strong relationship between business goals and objectives and information security
Business and information security relationship
designed to facilitate and control the expenditure of the organization's funds.
Capital planning
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 2
provides a set of cybersecurity activities that are common across critical infrastructure sectors.
Core
What are the core functions in the NIST cybersecurity framework? and explain them.
- Core - Implementation tiers - Profiles
Explain three categories of metrics for evaluating an organization's security governance.
- Executive management support - Business and information security relationship - Information protection
What are the major activities of the Information Security Forum?
- Planning for cybersecurity - Managing the cybersecurity function - Security assessment
Please describe at least five potential privacy threats that may occur as information is being disseminated.
Aggregation Identification Insecurity Secondary use Exclusion
What are the four factors that determine risk?
Assets Threat Vulnerability Controls
A set of activities that explains and promotes security, establishes accountability, and informs the workforce of security news.
Awareness
What are the four phases of the cybersecurity learning continuum?
Awareness Cybersecurity essentials Role-based training Education/certification
ensure that personnel at all levels of the organization understand their information security responsibilities to properly use and protect the information resources entrusted to them.
Awareness and training
Chapter 3
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 5:
Chapter 5:
Chapter 6
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 7
ensure adequate consideration of the potential security impacts due to specific changes to an information system or its surrounding environment.
Configuration management
This is a management function that involves setting the basic criteria necessary for information security risk management, defining the scope and boundaries, and establishing an appropriate organizational structure for information security risk management.
Context establishment
Explain the six stages of the information security risk management process.
Context establishment Risk assessment Risk treatment Risk acceptance Risk communication and consultation Risk monitoring and review
involves management policies and procedures designed to maintain or restore business operations.
Contingency planning
Ensure that as projects develops and investment expenditures continue, the project continues to meet mission needs at the expected levels of cost and risk.
Control
Intended to develop secure practices in the use of IT resources.
Cybersecurity essentials
Describe the "select-control-evaluate" framework
Describe the "select-control-evaluate" framework
Integrates all of the security skills and competencies of the various functional specialties into a common body of knowledge.
Education/certification
Compare actual results and expected results after a project was fully implemented.
Evaluate
a critical component for cybersecurity program success
Executive management support
Explain key security program areas:
Explain key security program areas:
provide context on how an organization views cybersecurity risk.
Implementation tiers
occurs after the detection of a security event, seeks to minimize the damage of the event and facilitate rapid recovery.
Incident response
The process of establishing and maintaining a framework and supporting management structure and processes to provide assurance that the information security strategies are aligned with the support business objectives and are consistent with applicable laws and regulations.
Information Security Governance
The supervision and making of decisions necessary to achieve business objectives through the protection of the organization's information assets.
Information Security Management
These indicators of security governance effectiveness deal with the pervasiveness and strength of information security mechanisms.
Information protection
Ensures that good practice in information security is applied effectively and consistently throughout the organization.
Information security function
Lists recommended actions for ensuring that all information security projects apply common project management practices, meet security requirements, and are aligned with the organization's business objectives.
Information security projects
The pressuring of individuals to divulge information.
Interrogation
Describes a process that should be established to identify and interpret the information security implications of relevant laws and regulations.
Legal and regulatory compliance
List twenty common cybersecurity threat forms.
Malware Virus Worm Ransomware Spam Logic bomb Trojan horse Backdoor (trapdoor) Mobile code Exploit Exploit kit Downloader Dropper Spammer Flooder Zombie Spyware Adware Denial-of-service (DoS) Distributed denial-of-service Hacker Social engineering Phishing Password attack
a key feedback mechanism for an effective information security program.
Performance measures
represents the outcome based on business needs that an organization has selected from the Framework Core categories and subcategories.
Profiles
What does the acronym RACI stand for?
Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed
Involves ensuring that residual risks are explicitly accepted by the managers of the organization.
Risk acceptance
Provides the basis for risk evaluation and decisions about risk treatment. Risk analysis includes risk estimation.
Risk analysis
Encompasses the continual and iterative processes that an organization conducts to provide, share, or obtain information and to engage in dialogue with stakeholders regarding the management of risk.
Risk communication and consultation
Assists in the decision about risk treatment by comparing the results of risk analysis with risk criteria to determine whether the risk and/or its magnitude are acceptable or tolerable.
Risk evaluation
Involves the identification of risk sources, events, their causes, and their potential consequences. It involves historical data, theoretical analysis, informed and expert opinions, and stakeholders' needs.
Risk identification
Regarding risk assessment, what are the different types of assets?
Risk identification Risk analysis Risk evaluation
Includes ongoing monitoring and review of all risk information obtained from the risk management activities.
Risk monitoring and review
Involves the following: Avoiding the risk by deciding not to start or continue with an activity that gives rise to the risk.
Risk treatment
Intended to provide knowledge and skills specific to an individual's roles and responsibilities relative to information systems.
Role-based training
the alignment of information security management and operation with enterprise and IT strategic planning.
Security planning
Management supervision of the acquisition of security-related products and services.
Security products acquisition
Identify and analyze each project's risks and returns before committing significant funds to any project.
Select
The watching, listening to, or recording of an individual's activities.
Surveillance
Please describe the two possible types of threats in information collection process in today's information scenario.
Surveillance Interrogation
This is the overall process of developing, implementing, and retiring information systems.
System development life cycle
What are the major key challenges in developing an effective cybersecurity system? and explain each one in details.
Technology, Policy, and Incentives. ---------------------------------------------------- Scale and complexity of cyber space Nature of the threat User needs versus security implementation Difficulty estimating costs and benefits
explain the need of an effective information security policy
ensures that all employees in an organization, especially those with responsibility of some sort for one or more assets, understand the security principles in use and their individual security-related responsibilities
