IFMG 300 Exam 2 Ch 4,5,6
downtime
Refers to a period of time when a system is unavailable
anti-spam policy
Simply states that email users will not send unsolicited emails (or spam)
threat
an act or object that poses a danger to assets
patent
an exclusive right to make or sell an invention granted by a government to the inventor
cyberattacks
malicious attempts to access or damage a computer system
Nonrepudiation
A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions
Child Online Protection Act (COPA)
A law that protects minors from accessing inappropriate material on the Internet.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
A legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union (EU)
opt in
A user can opt in to receive emails by choosing to allow permissions to incoming emails
Information Ethics
Govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies, as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself
social media policy
Outlines the corporate guidelines or principles governing employee online communications
privacy
The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personal possessions, and not to be observed without your consent
Information Security
a broad term encompassing the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization
competitive click-fraud
a computer crime where a competitor or disgruntled employee increases a company's search advertising costs by repeatedly clicking on the advertiser's link
Fair Information Practices
a general term for a set of standards governing the collection and use of personal data and addressing issues of privacy and accuracy
social media manager
a person within the organization who is trusted to monitor, contribute, filter, and guide the social media presence of a company, individual, product, or brand
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
a policy that a user must agree to follow to be provided access to corporate email, information systems, and the internet
Typosquatting
a problem that occurs when someone registers purposely misspelled variations of well-known domain names
Digital Rights Management
a technological solution that allows publishers to control their digital media to discourage, limit, or prevent illegal copying and distribution
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
allows employees to use their personal mobile devices and computers to access enterprise data and applications
the right to be forgotten
allows individuals to request to have all content that violates their privacy removed
Teergrubing
anti-spamming approach by which the receiving computer launches a return attack against the spammer, sending email messages back to the computer that originated the suspected spam
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
builds the national capacity to defend against cyberattacks and works with the federal government to provide cybersecurity tools, incident response services, and assessment capabilities to safeguard the ".gov" networks that support the essential operations of partner departments and agencies.
information privacy policy
contains general principles regarding information privacy
ethical computer use policy
contains general principles to guide computer user behavior
Internet use policy
contains general principles to guide the proper use of the internet
opt out
customer specifically chooses to deny permission of receiving emails
email privacy policy
details the extent to which email messages may be read by others
Internet Censorship
government attempts to control internet traffic, thus preventing some material from being viewed by a country's citizens
Cyberbullying
includes threats, negative remarks, or defamatory comments transmitted through the Internet or posted on the website
intellectual property
intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form and includes copyrights, trademarks, and patents
Epolicies
policies and procedures that address information management along with the ethical use of computers and the internet in the business environment
Ediscovery (electronic discovery)
refers to the ability of a company to identify, search, gather, seize, or export digital information in responding to a litigation, audit, investigation, or information inquiry
mail bomb
sends a massive amount of email to a specific person or system that can cause that user's server to stop functioning
counterfeit software
software that is manufactured to look like the real thing and sold as such
employee monitoring policy
states explicitly how, when, and where the company monitors its employees
Physical Security
tangible protection such as alarms, guards, fireproof doors, fences, and vaults
Confidentiality
the assurance that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them
Cybervandalism
the electronic defacing of an existing website
copyright
the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea, such as a song, book, or video game
Digital Trust
the measure of consumer, partner, and employee confidence in an organization's ability to protect and secure data and the privacy of individuals
Rule 41
the part of the United States Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that covers the search and seizure of physical and digital evidence
click fraud
the practice of artificially inflating traffic statistics for online advertisements
Ethics
the principles and standards that guide our behavior towards other people
data scraping
the process of extracting large amounts of data from a website and saving it to a spreadsheet or computer
social media monitoring
the process of monitoring and responding to what is being said about a company, individual, product, or brand
website name stealing
the theft of a website's name that occurs when someone, posing as a site's administrator, changes the ownership of the domain name assigned to the website to another website owner
pirated software
the unauthorized use, duplication, distribution, or sale of copyrighted software
workplace MIS monitoring
tracks people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes, error rate, and number of transactions processed
spam
unsolicited email