Question 1

What is an insider?

Accepted Answer

A)  A form of social engineering in which one individual lies to obtain confidential data about another individual.
B)  A hacker looking through your trash to find personal information.
C)  Legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misuse their access to the environment and cause some kind of business-affecting incident.
D)  Malicious agents designed by spammers and other Internet attackers to farm email addresses off websites or deposit spyware on machines.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

A voiceprint is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

What is a technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses?

Accepted Answer

A)  Pharming
B)  Phishing
C)  Phishing expedition
D)  Spear phishingE) A) and C)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

What is hardware or software that guards a private network by analyzing incoming and outgoing information for the correct markings?

Accepted Answer

A)  Firewall
B)  Certificate authority
C)  Online certificate
D)  Digital certificateE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 5

eBay is an example of an online company that has been faced with numerous security issues.For example, imagine you purchase a digital camera on eBay.Three months later you might receive an email asking you to log in to the system to update your credit card or PayPal information.Of course, this email is not actually from eBay and as soon as you log in your information will be stolen.What type of information security breach would you consider this to be?

Accepted Answer

A)  An Insider
B)  Dumpster diving
C)  Social engineering
D)  PhishingE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 6

What is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting?

Accepted Answer

A)  Smart card
B)  Token
C)  Biometrics
D)  Content filteringE) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 7

What requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password)  and what the user has (security token) ?

Accepted Answer

A)  Single-factor authentication
B)  Two-factor authentication
C)  Multi-factor authentication
D)  BiometricsE) All of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Provide an example of each of the three primary information security areas: (1) authentication and authorization, (2) prevention and resistance, and (3) detection and response.

Accepted Answer

(1) Authentication and authorization: Au...

Question 9

What is multifactor authentication?

Accepted Answer

A)  The traditional security process that requires a user name and password.
B)  A process that requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password)  and what the user has (security token) .
C)  A process that requires more than two means of authentication such as what the user knows (password) , what the user has (security token) , and what the user is (biometric verification) .
D)  The identification of a user based on physical characteristic such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice or handwriting.E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

What scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt?

Accepted Answer

A)  Digital certificate
B)  Encryption
C)  Decrypt
D)  CryptographyE) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

The technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, often through fraudulent emails that look as though they came from legitimate businesses, is called phishing.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

A pharming attack uses a zombie farm, often by an organized crime association, to launch a massive phishing attack.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

What uses a zombie farm, often by an organized crime association, to launch a massive phishing attack?

Accepted Answer

A)  Zombie
B)  Zombie farm
C)  Pharming attack
D)  Time bombE) None of the above
F) All of the above

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What scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt?

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