Quiz Chapter 12

What do the letters of the C-I-A triad stand for?

confidentiality, integrity, availability

What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?

A federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce whose mission is to "promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life."

The ________ is a U.S. standards organization whose goal is to empower its members and constituents to strengthen the U.S. marketplace position in the global economy, while helping to ensure the safety and health of consumers and the protection of the environment.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

The ISO was formed in 1918 with the merger of five engineering societies and three government agencies, which merged to form the American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC).

False

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is an international nonprofit organization that focuses on developing and distributing standards that relate to electricity and electronics.

False

With more than 425,000 members in approximately 160 countries, the ISO has the largest number of members of any technical professional organization in the world.

False

Today, _________ standards address a wide variety of topics, including power generation, power transmission and distribution, commercial and consumer electrical appliances, semiconductors, electromagnetics, batteries, solar energy, and telecommunications. The organization was also instrumental in the development of standards for electrical measurements, including the gauss, hertz, and weber.

IEC

________ is an international security standard that documents a comprehensive set of controls that represent information systems best practices.

ISO 27000

The ANSI produces standards that affect nearly all aspects of IT.

True

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) are standards developed or endorsed by the ____________.

W3C