CyberSecurity Final Exam Review

In which cloud computing service model does a provider’s applications run on a cloud infrastructure and the consumer does not manage or control the underlying infrastructure?

• platform as a service (PaaS)

• infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

• software as a service (SaaS)

• public cloud

Business intelligence (BI) software consists of tools and techniques used to surface large amounts of raw unstructured data to perform a variety of tasks including data mining, event processing, and predictive analytics.

• True

• False

The process in which end users find personal technology and apps that are more powerful or capable, more convenient, less expensive, quicker to install, and easier to use than enterprise IT solutions is known as consumerization.

• True

• False

An organization can be compliant with all applicable security and privacy regulations for its industry, yet still not be secure.

• True

• False

Most cyberattacks today are perpetrated by internal threat actors such as malicious employees engaging in corporate espionage.

• True

• False

The Cyber-Attack Lifecycle is a five-step process that an attacker goes through to attack a network.

• True

• False

An attacker needs to succeed in executing only one step of the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle to infiltrate a network, whereas a defender must “be right every time” and break every step of the chain to prevent an attack.

• True

• False

Which technique is not used to break the command-andcontrol (C&C) phase of the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle?

• blocking outbound traffic to known malicious sites and IP addresses

• DNS sinkholing and DNS poisoning

• vulnerability and patch management

• all of the above

The key to breaking the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle during the Installation phase is to implement network segmentation, a Zero Trust model, and granular control of applications to limit or restrict an attacker’s lateral movement within the network.

• True

• False

Network firewalls cannot completely protect hosts from zeroday exploits.

• True

• False