vocabularyB

Question 1

Badge

Answer 1

A device used for identification or authentication. A badge can be electronic or standard.

Question 2

Baseband

Answer 2

A digital LAN signaling type in which the entire media is filled with one signal.

Question 3

Bastion Host

Answer 3

A device that acts as a host and provides packet filtering and proxy services.

Question 4

BCP

Answer 4

Business continuity plan is a plan ensuring that the business can continue in the event of an interruption.

Question 5

Bell-LaPadula Model

Answer 5

A security model presented in the 1970s by the US Department of Defense. It was designed specifically to protect classified information and addresses data confidentiality only. This model supports multiple states and transitions between states.

Question 6

Biba Model

Answer 6

Security model designed to address data integrity.

Question 7

Biometrics

Answer 7

The most expensive and secure authentication type that uses physical characteristics to authenticate a person. Biometrics use characteristics such as retina and iris scans, fingerprint and handprint characteristics, voice patterns, keystroke patterns, and signatures to authenticate a subject.

Question 8

Birthday

Answer 8

A type of attack which attempts to find different messages that produce the same digest.

Question 9

Block Cipher

Answer 9

A category of cipher in which the cipher works on a section of plaintext.

Question 10

Blowfish

Answer 10

A symmetric cryptographic algorithm standard developed as an alternative to DES and IDEA. Blowfish operates on 64-bit blocks and the key varies from 32 bits to 446 bits.

Question 11

Boot Sector Infector

Answer 11

A virus that infects the Master Boot Record or the Boot Sector of a computers boot device.

Question 12

BRI

Answer 12

The Basic Rate Interface is an ISDN type that includes two 64-KB channels and one 16-KB channel. The 64-KB channels transmit all digital, audio, and video and the 16-KB channel is for purely digital transfer.

Question 13

Bridge

Answer 13

A network connection device that forwards data packets based on the MAC address included in the frame. A bridge uses the data-link layer of the ISO/OSI reference model.

Question 14

Broadband

Answer 14

An analog LAN signaling type commonly used for cable TV in which multiple communication channels may be used simultaneously by transmitting channels on a carrier.

Question 15

Brute Force Attack

Answer 15

An attack that attempts to gain access many times using different input types. Examples of brute force attacks are password guessing and war dialing.

Question 16

Buffer Overflow

Answer 16

A type of security attack which sends large amounts of data to the buffer, causing it to overflow into adjacent buffers therefore causing corruption. The data sent includes codes that damage the files, change data, or disclose information.

Question 17

Bus Topology

Answer 17

A LAN topology with a single high-speed wire that all nodes are connected to and messages travel through. All nodes are connected to the shared media, often called a backbone or bus.

Question 18

Business Attack

Answer 18

A type of attack that attempts to acquire sensitive information from a commercial organization in order to harm a person or organization.

Question 19

Business Impact Analysis

Answer 19

The step in planning a BCP that identifies critical resources and the threats to those resources.