Economic Informatics CH 1-4

Which of the following is true?

• Information can be an asset or a liability, depending on the adopted information strategy or external factors.

• Information can be neither asset, nor liability.

• Information can be an asset, but not liability.

• Information can be liability, but not asset.

Thanks to _________ characteristic of cloud computing, computing resources can be rapidly provisioned, increased, or decreased to meet changing user demand.

• Location-independent resource pooling

• Ubiquitous network access

• Rapid elasticity

• On-demand self-service

A ________ is owned and maintained by a cloud service provider, such as Amazon Web Services, and made available to the general public or industry group.

• private cloud

• public cloud

• hybrid cloud

• integrated cloud

______ refers to the policies, procedures, and technical measures used to prevent unauthorized access, alteration, theft, or physical damage to information systems.

• Privacy

• Standards

• Security

• Transferrability

Most recent attacks have come from ______ which are independent computer programs that copy themselves from one computer to other computers over a network. Unlike viruses, they can operate on their own without attaching to other computer program files and rely less on human behavior to spread from computer to computer.

_______ involves setting up fake websites or sending e-mail messages that look like those of legitimate businesses to ask users for confidential personal data.

Malicious intruders seeking system access sometimes trick employees into revealing their passwords by pretending to be legitimate members of the company in need of information. This practice is called ________ .

• ransomware

• social engineering

• sniffer

• keylogger

________ refers to the ability to know that a person is who he or she claims to be.

• information security

• authentication

• smart card

• password

________ prevent unauthorized users from accessing private networks and is a combination of hardware and software that controls the flow of incoming and outgoing network traffic.

• smart card

• Firewalls

• smart card

• password

Hackers gain unauthorized access by finding ________ in the security protections websites and computer systems employ, often taking advantage of various features of the Internet that make it an open system and easy to use.

• weaknesses

• firewalls

• tokens

• strengths