Chapter 3

Question 1

hardening

Answer 1

The act of confi guring an OS securely, updating it, creating rules and policies
to help govern the system in a secure manner, and removing unnecessary applications
and services.

Question 2

Trusted Operating System (TOS)

Answer 2

A system that adheres to criteria for multilevel security
and meets government regulations.

Question 3

patch management

Answer 3

The planning, testing, implementing, and auditing of patches.

Question 4

security template

Answer 4

Groups of policies that can be loaded in one procedure.
security tokens Physical devices given to authorized users to help with authentication

Question 5

baselining

Answer 5

The process of measuring changes in networking, hardware, software, and
so on.

Question 6

hypervisor

Answer 6

The portion of virtual machine software that allows multiple virtual operating
systems (guests) to run at the same time on a single computer.