Intro to Cybersecurity Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Cybersecurity?

Answer 1

The ongoing effort to protect these networked systems and all of the data from unauthorized use or harm

Question 2

What is Cybersecurity in the personal realm?

Answer 2

The need to safeguard your identity, your data, and your computing devices.

Question 3

What is Cybersecurity at the corporate level?

Answer 3

It is everyone’s responsibility to protect the organization’s reputation, data, and customers

Question 4

What is Cybersecurity at the state level?

Answer 4

The national security, and the safety and well-being of the citizens are at stake.

Question 5

What is your offline identity?

Answer 5

It is the person who your friends and family interact with on a daily basis at home, at school, or work.

Question 6

What is your online identity?

Answer 6

Online identity is who you are in cyberspace, how you present yourself to others online

Question 7

What 7 aspects of personal data?

Answer 7

1. Data on computing devices
2. Medical Data
3. Employment
4. Information online
5. Your identity
6. Education Data
7. Financial Data

Question 8

What is personal data?

Answer 8

Personal information can uniquely identify you as an individual.

Question 9

What areas encompass personal data?

Answer 9

Pictures, messages, name, ocial security number, date and place of birth, and mother‘s maiden name.

Question 10

What are personal medical records?

Answer 10

electronic health records (EHRs) and fitness bands

Question 11

What are are education records?

Answer 11

Information about your grades and test scores, your attendance, courses taken, awards and degrees rewarded, and any disciplinary reports. (This record may also include contact information, health and immunization records, and special education records including individualized education programs (IEPs).)

Question 12

What are Employment and Financial Records

Answer 12

Information about your income and expenditures.

Question 13

What are the two types of organization data?

Answer 13

Traditional Data and Internet of Things and Big data.

Question 14

What does corporate traditional data comprise of?

Answer 14

Personnel information, intellectual properties, and financial data.

Question 15

What does IoT data comprise of?

Answer 15

IoT is a large network of physical objects, such as sensors and equipment that extend beyond the traditional computer network.

Question 16

What is the CIA triad?

Answer 16

Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability

Question 17

Define confidentiality.

Answer 17

Another term for confidentiality would be privacy. Policies should restrict access to the information to authorized personnel and ensure that only those authorized individuals view this data.

Question 18

Define Integrity.

Answer 18

Integrity is accuracy, consistency, and trustworthiness of the data during its entire life cycle.

Question 19

What are some Hash/Checksums?

Answer 19

MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512.

Question 20

Why are hash/checksums used?

Answer 20

A checksum is used to verify the integrity of files, or strings of characters, after they have been transferred from one device to another across your local network or the Internet.

Question 21

What is availability?

Answer 21

Maintaining equipment, performing hardware repairs, keeping operating systems and software up to date, and creating backups ensure the availability of the network and data to the authorized users.

Question 22

What are the consequences of a Security Breach?

Answer 22

1. Ruined Reputation
2. Vandalism
3. Theft
4. Revenue Lost
   Damaged Intellectual Property

Question 23

What are three broad categories of hackers?

Answer 23

White, Grey, and Black

Question 24

What are White Hat Hackers?

Answer 24

These are ethical hackers who use their programming skills for good, ethical, and legal purposes.

Question 25

What are Grey Hat Hackers?

Answer 25

These are individuals who commit crimes and do arguably unethical things, but not for personal gain or to cause damage.

Question 26

What are Black Hat Hackers?

Answer 26

These are unethical criminals who violate computer and network security for personal gain, or for malicious reasons such as attacking networks.

Question 27

What are three types of Attackers?

Answer 27

Amateures, Hackers, Organized Hackers

Question 28

What are two types of cyber attacks?

Answer 28

Internal and External

Question 29

What are the Internal Cyber attacks?

Answer 29

Employee, ex-employee, Contract Staff, and Trusted partners

Question 30

What are external Cyber attacks (outsiders)?

Answer 30

Organized Attackers, Hackers, Amateures

Question 31

What are three categories of legal issues?

Answer 31

Personal Legal Issues, Corporate Legal Issues, International Law and Cybersecurity

Question 32

What is the global cyber partnership that outlines international Law on Cybersecurity?

Answer 32

International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT)

Question 33

What are personal ethical issues?

Answer 33

Would I want to discover that someone has hacked into my computer and altered images in my social network sites? Would I want to discover that an IT technician whom I trusted to fix my network, told colleagues personal information about me that was gained while working on my network?

Question 34

What is Cyberwarfare?

Answer 34

Cyberwarfare is an Internet-based conflict that involves the penetration of computer systems and networks of other nations.

Question 35

What is the purpose of cyberwarfare?

Answer 35

The main purpose of cyberwarfare is to gain advantage over adversaries, whether they are nations or competitors.