Principles of Information Securtiy Midterm

Risk mitigation is the process of assigning a risk rating or score to each information asset.

False

There are three general causes of unethical and illegal behavior: _____, Accident, or Intent.

Ignorance

Most common data backup schemes involve _____.

RAID, disk-to-disk-to-cloud

The _____ hijacking attack uses IP spoofing to enable an attacker to impersonate another entity on the network.

TCP

Exposure factor is the expected percentage of loss that would occur from a particular attack.

True

The Secret Service is charged with safeguarding the nation's financial infrastructure and payments systems to preserve the integrity of the economy.

True

A threat _____ is an evaluation of the threats to information assets, including a determination of their likelihood of occurrence and potential impact of an attack.

assessment

What is the subject of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

financial reporting

Information about a person's history, background, and attributes that can be used to commit identity theft is known as _____ information.

personally identifiable

_____ signifies how often you expect a specific type of attack to occur.

ARO

Risk _____ defines the quantity and nature of risk that organizations are willing to accept as they evaluate the tradeoffs between perfect security and unlimited accessibility.

Appetite

Human error or failure often can be prevented with training, ongoing awareness activities, and _____.

Controls

_____ risk treatment is a strategy to do nothing to protect a vulnerability and to accept the outcome of its exploitation.

Defense

A server would experience a(n) _____ attack when a hacker compromises it to acquire information via a remote location using a network connection.

Direct

Which of the following acts is a collection of statutes that regulate the interception of wire, electronic, and oral communications?

Electronic Communications Privacy Act

Understanding the _____ context means understanding the impact of elements such as the business environment, the legal/regulatory/compliance environment, as well as the threat environment.

External

"Knowing yourself" means identifying, examining, and understanding the threats facing the organization's information assets.

False

A disaster is any adverse event that could result in loss of an information asset or assets but does not currently threaten the viability of the entire organization.

False

An advance-fee fraud attack involves the interception of cryptographic elements to determine keys and encryption algorithms.

False

In a study on software license infringement, licenses from the United States were significantly more permissive than those from the Netherlands and other countries.

False

Incident detail assessment determines the impact from a breach of confidentiality, integrity, and availability on information and information assets.

False

Network security focuses on the protection of physical items, objects, or areas from unauthorized access and misuse.

False

The bottom-up approach to information security has a higher probability of success than the top-down approach.

False

The key difference between laws and ethics is that ethics carry the authority of a governing body and laws do not.

False

The operational plan documents the organization's intended long-term direction and efforts for the next several years.

False

The primary mission of information security is to ensure that systems and their content retain their confidentiality.

False

The security framework is a more detailed version of the security blueprint.

False

With the removal of copyright protection mechanisms, software can be easily and legally distributed and installed.

False

A short-term interruption in electrical power availability is known as a _____.

Fault

What is the subject of the Computer Security Act?

Federal Agency Information Security

Redundancy can be implemented at a number of points throughout the security architecture, such as in _____.

Firewalls, proxy servers, access controllers.

Which of these is NOT a unique function of information security management?

Hardware

The protection of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets, whether in storage, processing, or transmission, via the application of policy, education, training and awareness, and technology is known as _____.

Information Security

The community of interest made up of IT managers and skilled professionals in systems design, programming, networks, and other related disciplines is called _____.

Information Technology Management and Professionals

The EISP component of _____ provides information on the importance of information security in the organization and the legal and ethical obligation to protect critical information about customers, employees, and markets.

Need for Information Security

Individuals who control and are responsible for the security and use of a particular set of information are known as data _____

Owners

The spheres of security are the foundation of the security framework and illustrate how information is under attack from a variety of sources, with far fewer protection layers between the information and potential attackers on the _____ side of the organization.

People

The protection of tangible items, objects, or areas from unauthorized access and misuse is known as _____.

Physical security

_____ law regulates the structure and administration of government agencies and their relationships with citizens, employees, and other governments.

Public

A table of hash values and their corresponding plaintext values used to look up password values if an attacker is able to steal a system's encrypted password file is known as a(n) _____.

Rainbow table

_____ is a contractual document guaranteeing certain minimal levels of service provided by a vendor.

Service agreement

_____ is any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge.

Spyware

A computer is the _____ of an attack when it is used to conduct an attack against another computer.

Subject

_____ often function as standards or procedures to be used when configuring or maintaining systems.

SysSPs

A breach of possession may not always result in a breach of confidentiality.

True

A data custodian works directly with data owners and is responsible for the storage, maintenance, and protection of the information.

True

Business impact analysis is a preparatory activity common to both CP and risk management.

True

Good security programs begin and end with policy.

True

Laws, policies, and their associated penalties only provide deterrence if, among other things, potential offenders fear the probability of a penalty being applied.

True

Some policies may also need a sunset clause indicating their expiration date.

True

Technical mechanisms like digital watermarks and embedded code, copyright codes, and even the intentional placement of bad sectors on software media have been used to deter or prevent the theft of software intellectual property.

True

The organization should adopt naming standards that do not convey information to potential system attackers.

True

Using a service bureau is a BC strategy in which an organization contracts with a service agency to provide a facility for a fee.

True

A(n) _____ is a document containing contact information for the people to be notified in the event of an incident.

alert roster

SP 800-14, Generally Accepted Principles and Practices for Securing Information Technology Systems, provides best practices and security principles that can direct the security team in the development of a security _____.

blueprint

A fundamental difference between a BIA and risk management is that risk management focuses on identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks to determine which controls can protect information, while the BIA assumes that _____.

controls have been bypassed, controls have proven ineffective, controls have failed

A crime involving digital media, computer technology, or related components is best called an act of _____.

digital malfeasance

The probability that a specific vulnerability within an organization will be attacked by a threat is known as _____.

likelihood

The average amount of time until the next hardware failure is known as _____.

mean time to failure (MTTF)

Which type of organizations should prepare for the unexpected?

organizations of every size and purpose