Cyber Hygiene Flashcards
(31 cards)
practices and steps that maintain system health and improve online security
secure network user habits
Cyber Hygiene
use firewalls
update virus definitions
running security scans
select and maintain passwords update software
back up data
Good Network user Habits
is a process for
maintaining computer systems, servers, and software
in a desired, consistent state. It’s a way to make sure
that a system continues to perform as expected while
changes are made over time.
Configuration management
is the discipline of
ensuring all current and future company software,
hardware, and modifications to those assets are
known and always tracked.
* This prevents small or large network changes from
going undocumented.
Configuration management
can lead to poor performance,
inconsistencies, or noncompliance.
Misconfigurations
Undocumented changes add to
instability and downtime
its necessary to maintain the to revert the system if necessary
baseline
even authorized modifications can
add, remove or completely change functionality of a system
Baseline can give solid metrics to predict what might happen in the future depending on the?
starting points and time span being analyzed
is the measure of a systems current state of security readiness
Baseline
Configuration management ensures that our assets are easily recoverable the applies to rollbacks if a bad code is pushed out. we can go back to the state of our software before the change
Disaster recovery
The term site reliability refers to how often your is up
Service is up
what benefit is
provisioning is the act of adding mire resources to our running application.
configuration management ensures that we know what a good state of our service is.
the goal is really to make provisioning a non event.
Easier scaling
should be backed up regularly
system data
Data may be backed up on?
magnetic disks, magnetic tap, or optical disks.
it is good business practice to store backed up data
offsite
the goal of all data backup jobs is to ensure lost data?
can be recovered
quickly, efficiently and as completely as possible
is a way to manage your disk drives so that you can create one logical drive from two or more physical drives.
RAID
another name for what you put your backed up data on
Media
this backs up all the selected files and folders
can be time consuming if there is a lot of data
full or normal backup
backs up only additions and alterations since the most recent full backup
archive flag is not reset until full backup
Differential backup
backs up only additions and alterations since the most recent incremental backup
archive flag is reset after each incremental backup
restoring data would require a full backup and each incremental backup chronologically
Incremental Backup
backs up all selected files and folders that changed during the day.
daily backup
team should be composed of core members from all departments with representation from the top management
Constitute a disaster recovery team