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Cyber Security Flashcards

1
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What is involved in risk management?

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Identifying and controlling as many risk factors as possible

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What is an asset?

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Any item with value owned by an organisation

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What is an asset example?

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  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Information and data
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What is meant by Identifying assets and analysing risks?

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Valuing assets to assess whether their worth protecting

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How do businesses mitigate risks?

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Monitor activity

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What information is contained in risk monitoring logs?

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  • Who logged on and when
  • Which files were read, edited or deleted
  • Network stats
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What is remediation?

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the process of dealing with vulnerabilities

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What is patch deployment remediation?

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Software issues are reported back to the manufacturers that fix them

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What is manual remediation?

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Smaller organisation cant afford monitoring software so the technician will be responsible

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What is automated remediation?

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Tools that identify and repair vulnerabilities without technicians.

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What is the vulnerability management cycle?

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  • Discover vulnerabilities
  • prioritise assets
  • report vulnerabilities
  • re mediate vulnerabilities
  • verify
    REPEAT
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What software can be used to monitor networks?

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IDS, NIDS, HIDS - intercept and inspect network packets

IPS

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What is an IPS?

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Monitor the network for malicious incidents and capturing information about them.

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What threats to IPS deal with?

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  • Denial of Service (DoS) attack
  • Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack
  • Viruses
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What is the signature-based approach to protecting networks?

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Attacks are matched with the signatures or patterns, the system takes necessary action.

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What is the anomaly-based approach to protecting networks?

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The system monitors and blocks abnormal or unexpected behaviour on the network.

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What is the policy-based approach to protecting networks?

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Policies are configured according to network infrastructure.

18
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What are network security tests?

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Looks at different ways the network can be connected how they can be exploited.

19
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What is social engineering?

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Employees tested to see if they would give away sensitive information

20
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What are physical security tests?

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this is where people will try to gain physical access to buildings or data

21
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What are examples of policies to ensure staff are not putting data at risk?

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  • password policy
  • Digital signature policy
  • Disaster recover plan

OCR ICT unit 3 (14 decks)

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