IAS MT

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It stands for “Malicious Software”

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Malware

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it is designed to gain
access or installed into the computer without the consent of the user.

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MALWARE

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They
perform unwanted tasks in the host computer for the benefit of a third party.

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MALWARE

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simply written to distract/annoy the user, to the complex ones which
captures the sensitive data from the host machine and send it to remote
servers.

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MALWARE

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It is a special type of malware which is used for forced advertising.

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ADWARE

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They either redirect the page to some advertising page or pop-up an additional page which promotes some product or event.

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ADWARE

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are financially supported by
the organizations whose products are advertised.

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ADWARE

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There is some malicious software which are downloaded along with the free software offered over the internet and installed in the host computer without the
knowledge of the user.

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Browser Hijacking software

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This software modifies the browsers setting and redirect
links to other unintentional sites.

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Browser Hijacking software

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It is a special type malware of which is installed in the target computer with or without the user permission and is designed to steal sensitive information from the target machine.

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SPYWARE

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Mostly it gathers the browsing habits of the user and the send it to the remote server without the knowledge of the owner of the computer. Most of the time they are downloaded in to the host computer while downloading freeware i.e. free application programs from the internet.

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Spyware

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may be of various types; It can keeps track of the cookies
of the host computer, it can act as a keyloggers to sniff the banking
passwords and sensitive information, etc.

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spyware

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is a malicious code written to damage/harm the host computer by deleting or appending a file, occupy memory space of the computer by replicating the copy of the code, slow down the performance of the computer, format the host machine, etc. It can be spread via email attachment, pen drives, digital images, e-greeting, audio or video clips,
etc.

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Virus

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may be present in a computer but it cannot activate itself
without the human intervention. Until and unless the executable file(.exe)
is execute, cannot be activated in the host machine.

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Virus

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They are a class of virus which can replicate themselves.

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Worm

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They are different from the virus by the fact that they does not require human intervention to travel over the network and spread from the infected machine to the whole network.

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Worms

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can spread either through network, using the loopholes of the Operating System or via email. The replication and spreading of the this over the network consumes the network resources like space and bandwidth and force the network to chok

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Worms

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is a malicious code that is installed in the host machine
by pretending to be useful software.

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Trojan Horse

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The user clicks on the link or download the file which pretends to be a useful file or software from legitimate source. It not only damages the host computer by manipulating the data but also it
creates a backdoor in the host computer so that it could be controlled by a remote computer.

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Trojan Horse

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a network of computers which are infected by malicious code and controlled by central controller.

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Botnet(robot network)

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The computers of this network which are infected by malicious
code are known as

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Zombies

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are networks of hijacked computer devices used to
carry out various scams and cyberattacks.

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Botnet

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The term “botnet” is
formed from the word’s

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Robot and network

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serve as a tool to automate mass attacks, such as data theft,
server crashing, and malware distribution.

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Bots

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It holds the host computer hostage until the ransom is paid. The malicious code can neither be uninstalled nor can the computer be used till the ransom is paid.

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Scareware

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When was the internet born?

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Around 1960's

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When was the the trend changed from causing the physical damaging to computers to making a computer malfunction using a malicious code

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Around 1980's

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This term is used to describe a unlawful activity in which computer or computing devices such as smartphones, tablets, Personal Digital Assistants(PDAs), etc. which are stand alone or a part of a network are used as a tool or/and target of criminal activity.

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Cyber Crime

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It is often committed by the people of destructive and criminal mindset either for revenge, greed or adventure.

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Cyber Crime

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An attack to the network or the computer system by some person with authorized system access is known as?

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Insider attack

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It is generally performed by dissatisfied or unhappy inside employees or contractors.

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Insider attack

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The insider attack could be prevented by planning and installing an?

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internal intrusion detection systems (IDS)

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When the attacker is either hired by an insider or an external entity to the organization

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External attacker

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These attacks are generally performed by amateurs who don’t have any predefined motives to perform the cyber attack. Usually these amateurs try to test a tool readily available over the internet on the network of a random company.

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Unstructured attack

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These types of attacks are performed by highly skilled and experienced people and the motives of these attacks are clear in their mind. They have access to sophisticated tools and technologies to gain access to other networks without being noticed by their Intrusion Detection Systems(IDSs).

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Structure attack

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these attacker have the necessary expertise to develop or modify the existing tools to satisfy their purpose.

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Structured attacker

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These types of attacks are usually performed by professional criminals, by a country on other rival countries, politicians to damage the image of the rival person or the country, terrorists, rival companies, etc.

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Structured attacker

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6 reasons for commission of cyber crimes

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Money Revenge Fun Recognition Anonymity Cyber Espionage

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One of the six reasons for commission of cyber crimes, It is considered to be pride if someone hack the highly secured networks like defense sites or networks.

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Recognition

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One of the six reasons for commission for cyber crime, At times the government itself is involved in cyber trespassing to keep eye on other person/network/country. The reason could be politically, economically socially motivated.

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Cyber Espionage

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19 kinds of cyber crime

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Cyber stalking Child pornography Forgery and counterfeiting Software piracy and crime related to IPRs Cyber Terrorism Phishing Computer vandalism Computer hacking Creating and distributing viruses over internet Spamming Cross site scripting Online auction fraud Cyber squatting Logic bombs Web jacking Internet time thefts Denial of service attack Salami attack Data diddling Email spoofing

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It is a process of changing the header information of an e-mail so that its original source is not identified and it appears to an individual at the receiving end that the email has been originated from source other than the original source

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Email spoofing

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It is a practice of changing the data before its entry into the computer system. Often, the original data is retained after the execution on the data is done.

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Data diddling

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It is an attack which proceeds with small increments and final add up to lead to a major attack. The increments are so small that they remain unnoticed

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Salami attack

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It is a cyber attack in which the network is chocked and often collapsed by flooding it with useless traffic and thus preventing the legitimate network traffic

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Denial of service attack

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Hacking the username and password of ISP of an individual and surfing the internet at his cost is?

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Internet time Theft

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The hacker gain access to a website of an organization and either blocks it or modify it to serve political, economical or social interest.

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Web jacking

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These are malicious code inserted into legitimate software. The malicious action is triggered by some specific condition. If the conditions holds true in future, the malicious action begins and based on the action defined in the malicious code, they either destroy the information stored in the system or make system unusable.

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Logic bombs

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It is an act of reserving the domain names of someone else‟s trademark with intent to sell it afterwards to the organization who is the owner of the trademark at a higher price.

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Cyber Squatting

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There are many genuine websites who offers online auction over internet. Taking the advantage of the reputation of these websites, some of the cyber criminals lure the customers to online auction fraud schemes which often lead to either overpayment of the product or the item is never delivered once the payment is made.

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Online auction fraud

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It is an activity which involves injecting a malicious client side script into a trusted website. As soon as the browser executes the malicious script, the malicious script gets access to the cookies and other sensitive information and sent to remote servers. Now this information can be used to gain financial benefit or physical access to a system for personal interes

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Cross site scripting

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Sending of unsolicited and commercial bulk message over the internet is known as

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Spamming

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3 criterias that an email cab be classified as spam

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Mass mailing Anonymity Unsolicited

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One of the criteria in spamming, the email is not targeted to one particular person but to a large number of peoples.

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Mass mailing

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One of the criteria in spamming, The real identify of the person not known

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Anonymity

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One of the criteria in spamming, the email is neither expected nor requested for the recipient.

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Unsolicited

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The spreading of a virus can cause business and financial loss to an organization. The loss includes the cost of repairing the system, cost associated with the loss of business during downtime and cost of loss of opportunity. The organization can sue the hacker, if found, for the sum of more than or equivalent to the loss borne by the organization.

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Creating and distributing viruses over internet

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One of the classification of hackers,someone outside computer security consulting firms who is used to bug-test a system prior to its launch, looking for exploits so they can be closed.

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Blue Hat

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One of the classification of hackers, find out the security vulnerabilities and report to the site administrators and offer the fix of the security bug for a consultancy fee.

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Grey Hat

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One if the classification of hackers, They may hack the system for social, political or economically motivated intentions. They find the security loopholes the system, and keep the information themselves and exploit the system for personal or organizational benefits till organization whose system is compromised is aware of this, and apply security patches.

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Black hat

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One of the classification of hackers and also known as the crackers

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Black hat

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One of the classification of hackerd, are the persons who hack the system to find the security vulnerabilities of a system and notify to the organizations so that a preventive action can be taken to protect the system from outside hackers

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White hat

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They are also known as ethical hackers

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White hat

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It is a practice of modifying computer hardware and software to accomplish a goal outside the creator‟s original purpose.

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Computer hacking

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t is an act of physical destroying computing resources using physical force or malicious code.

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Computer vandalism

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It is a process of acquiring personal and sensitive information of an individual via email by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

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Phishing

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The purpose of this is identity theft and the personal information like username, password, and credit card number etc. may be used to steal money from user accoun

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Phishing

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It is defined as the use of computer resources to intimidate or coerce government, the civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.

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Cyber Terrorism

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is an illegal reproduction and distribution for personal use or business. It comes under crime related to IPR infringement. Some of the other crimes under IPR infringement are: download of songs, downloading movies, etc.

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Software piracy snd Crime related to IPRS

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It is an act of possessing image or video of a minor (under 18), engaged in sexual conduct.

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Child pornography

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It is an act of stalking, harassing or threatening someone using Internet/computer as a medium. This is often done to defame a person and use email, social network, instant messenger, web-posting, etc. as a using Internet as a medium as it offers anonymity. The behaviour includes false accusations, threats, sexual exploitation to minors, monitoring, etc.

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Cyber stalking

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With the advancement in the hardware and the software, it is possible to produce counterfeit which matches the original document

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Forgery and counterfeiting

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it acts as a fundamental system in case of a mishap where data is inadvertently lost or corrupted from original system

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Backup System

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where data is backed up on a full-scale and recovered back from the same

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full back up

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where only changed or newly added data is backed up subsequently after the last full or incremental backup.

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Incremental Backup

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where only changed or newly added data is backed up subsequently after last full or differential backup but changes made in the previous differential backup are updated in next differential backup

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differential back up

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Methods in an enterprise can be improved based ono performance metrics, is measured in terms of cost for infrastructure, operations and maintenance.

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Total Cost of ownership

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AOB stands for?

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Age of Backup

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RTO stands for?

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Recovery time objective

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RPO stands for?

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Recovery Point Objective