Cybersecurity: Core Skills

A security professional collaborates with information technology teams to deploy an application that helps identify risk and vulnerabilities. What does this scenario describe?

• Upgrading network capacity

• Conducting a security audit

• Installing detection software

• Ethical hacking

Cybersecurity aims to protect networks, devices, people, and data from ?

• changing business priorities

• market shifts

• unauthorized access

• poor financial management

Which of the following entities may be an internal threat to an organization? Select three answer.

• Employees

• Customers

• Vendors

• Trusted partner

An individual has their personal information stolen. They discover that someone is using that information to impersonate them and commit fraud. What does this scenario describe?

• Secured customer data

• Identity theft

• Data Breach

• Network Infiltration

Which of the following entities may be an internal threat to an organization? Select three answers.

• Employees

• Customers

• Vendors

• Trusted Partners

An individual has their personal information stolen. They discover that someone is using that information to impersonate them and commit fraud. What does this scenario describe?

• Secured customer data

• Identity theft

• Data Breach

• Network Infilration

Security and event management (SIEM) tools enable security professionals to identify and analyze threats, and vulnerabilities.

• Identity

• Intelligence

• Information

• Improvement

Which of the following statements accurately describe personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive personally identifiable (SPII)? Select all that apply.

• An example of SPII is someone's biometric data

• An example of PII is someone's phone number.

• PII is any information used to infer an individual's identity.

• Only SPII is vulnerable to identity theft

An organization that is in regulatory compliance is likely to fines.

• Incur

• Rectify

• Encounter

• Avoid

Which of the following proficiencies are transferable skills, likely to be applicable in almost any field? Select three answers.

• Programming

• Problem-solving

• Analysis

• Written and Verbal communication