Cybersecurity Fundamentals Final Exam

The vulnerability discovered in IPsec in early 2014 was nicknamed Heartbleed, due to an issue with a heartbeat extension in the protocol.

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Behavior-based monitoring attempts to overcome the limitations of both anomaly-based monitoring and signature-based monitoring by being more adaptive and proactive instead of reactive.

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The OSI model breaks networking steps down into a series of six layers.

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A Hardware Security Module (HSM) is essentially a chip on the motherboard of the computer that provides cryptographic services.

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A hash algorithm is designed to create a hash that represents the contents of a set of data that can later be decrypted.

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Self-encrypting HDD is commonly found in copiers and multifunction printers as well as point-of-sale systems used in government, financial, and medical environments.

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Digital signatures actually only show that the public key labeled as belonging to the person was used to encrypt the digital signature.

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Defense in depth, or layered security, involves the use of multiple types of network hardware within a network.​

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Public keys can be stored by embedding them within digital certificates, while private keys can be stored on the user’s local system.

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A block cipher works on a single character at a time, and is faster than a stream cipher.

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