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A(n) _______ is a program or device that can monitor data traveling over a network.

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Question 32

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What is social engineering?

A) Using one's social skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker
B) Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident
C) Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically
D) A method for confirming user's identities

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Which of the following authentication methods is 100 percent accurate?

Which term describes legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident?

Denial-of-service attack (DoS) _______________ a website with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes the site.

A(n) _________ is hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network.

Intrusion detection software (IDS) searches out patterns in information and network traffic to indicate __________ and quickly respond to prevent any harm.

Distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) attacks from multiple __________ that flood a website with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes.

Which of the following can be completed by encryption?

___________ hat hackers break into other people's computer systems and may just look around or may steal and destroy information.

Social engineering is using one's __________ skills to trick people into revealing access credentials or other information valuable to the attacker.

Where do organizations typically place firewalls?

A(n) information security ____________ details how an organization will implement the information security policies.

Which of the following is a program or device that can monitor data traveling over a network?

If there is a security breech on your organizational information systems, which information security area is best suited to handle the breech?

List and describe the three primary security areas.

Summarize the five steps to creating an information security plan.

What is encryption?

Tokens are small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically.

____________ security is a broad term encompassing the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization.