Shorthands

Question 1

MTBF

Answer 1

Mean Time Before Failure

Question 2

MTTR

Answer 2

Mean Time to Repair

Question 3

MTU

Answer 3

Maximum Transmission Unit

Question 4

MPLS

Answer 4

Multi-protocol Label Switching

Question 5

SDLC

Answer 5

Software Development Life-Cycle

Question 6

Mitigation

Answer 6

Mitigation involves putting secuirty controls in place to reduce or eliminate risk,

Question 7

Transference

Answer 7

Transference Involves using Cybersecuirty Insurance or third party services to offload risk to another party.

Question 8

Avoidence

Answer 8

Avoidence involves not performing an action that carries risk. However this comes with oppertunity costs.

Question 9

Acceptance (Risk)

Answer 9

Acceptence involves accepting a residual risk, which is a decision that should be based on an organizations risk appetite.

Question 10

SOW

Answer 10

Statement of Work

Question 11

MOU

Answer 11

Memo of Understanding

Question 12

SLA

Answer 12

Service Level Agreement

Question 13

BPA

Answer 13

Business Partnership Agreement

Question 14

WEB Logs

Answer 14

Web: The web log file stores information about web requests, such as those to HTTP servers.

Question 15

ALE

Answer 15

Annualized Loss Expectancy (ALE) = Annualized Rate of Occurance (ARO) x Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)

ALE= SLE x ARO

Question 16

DLP

Answer 16

Data Loss Prevention

Question 17

SEIM

Answer 17

Security Event Management

Question 18

MDM

Answer 18

Mobile Device Management

Question 19

CVSS

Answer 19

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Question 20

MAC (Access Control)

Answer 20

Mandatory Access Controls

Question 21

IPS

Answer 21

Intrusion Protection System

Question 22

COBO

Answer 22

Corporate Owned, Bussiness Only

Question 23

COPE

Answer 23

Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled

Question 24

CYOD

Answer 24

Choose Your Own Device

Question 25

OSINT

Answer 25

Open Source Threat Intelligence

Question 26

SCAP

Answer 26

Secuirty Content Automation Protocol

Question 27

RBAC

Answer 27

Role Based Access Control

Question 28

ABAC

Answer 28

Attribute Based Access Control

Question 29

DAC

Answer 29

Discresionary Access Control

Question 30

Port 80

Answer 30

Unencrypted HTTP Port

Question 31

ACL

Answer 31

Access Control List (ACL)

Question 32

FIM

Answer 32

File Integrity Monitoring

Question 33

ISAC

Answer 33

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers

Question 34

DMARC

Answer 34

Domain-based Authentication Reporting and Conformance

Question 35

S/MIME

Answer 35

Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions