Cybersecurity

What does the term vulnerability mean?

• a weakness that makes a target susceptible to an attack

• a known target or victim machine

• a method of attack to exploit a target

• a potential threat that a hacker creates

What type of attack uses many systems to flood the resources of a target, thus making the target unavailable?

• DoS

• spoof

• DDoS

• ping sweep

Which workforce framework category includes highly specialized review and evaluation of incoming cybersecurity info?

• Securely Provision

• Protect and Defend

• Oversight and Development

• Analyze

What is a valid state of data?

• in-progress

• in-process

• in-moving

• in-termination

Which method helps to ensure data integrity?

• hashing

• repudiation

• availability

• security camera

What service determines which resources a user can access along with the operations that a user can perform?

• accounting

• authentication

• authorization

• biometric

What is a common hash function?

• Blowfish

• MD5

• RSA

• SHA

What mechanism can organizations use to prevent accidental changes by authorized users?

• backups

• encryption

• hashing

• version control

Which method is NOT used to verify identity in authentication?

• something you are

• something you do

• something you have

• something you know

Which is NOT one of the 3 foundational principles of the cybersecurity domain?

• confidentiality

• integrity

• accessibility

• availability