Assignment 1 T/F Flashcards
The OSI security architecture focuses on security attacks,
mechanisms, and services
True
Security attacks are classified as either passive or aggressive
False
Cybersecurity strives to ensure the attainment and maintenance of
the security properties of the organization and users’ assets
against relevant security risks in the cyberspace environment.
True
Information security and network security are subsets of
cybersecurity.
True
Data authenticity assures that private or confidential information is
not made available or disclosed to unauthorized individuals.
False
The OSI security architecture focuses on security attacks,
mechanisms, and services.
True
An active attack attempts to alter system resources or affect their
operation
True
Authentication exchange is the use of a trusted third party to assure certain properties of a data exchange
False
A loss of integrity is the unauthorized modification or destruction
of information.
True
The emphasis in dealing with active attacks is on prevention rather than detection
False
The connection-oriented integrity service addresses both
message stream modification and denial of service
True
The denial of service prevents or inhibits the normal use or
management of communication facilities
True
Integrity can apply to a stream of messages, a single message, or
selected fields within a message.
True
Passive attacks are very easy to detect because they involve alteration of the data.
False
Security services implement security policies and are implemented by security mechanisms.
True
