Cybersecurity

What is the practice of protecting systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks?

• Cybersecurity

• Firewalling

• Disk partitioning

• Installation

Cybersecurity can cover a whole range from fraudulent _______ to a targeted ________ of a website's traffic.

Select the TWO that complete the blanks.

• emails

• shutdown

• phishing

• attacks

A basic, overarching model for cybersecurity, particularly as it relates to information, is the __________.

Confidentiality refers to protecting ___________ from eyes that shouldn’t have access to it/them.

• fraudulent emails

• private information

• security policies

• digital attacks

Integrity refers to security controls that protect data from being changed or ______.

• backed up

• created

• deleted

• uploaded

Availability refers to data being consistently, reliably available to...

• authorized users

• remote users

• anyone

• IT technicians

Which pillar of the CIA triad refers to the principle that data is what we expect it to be?

• Confidentiality

• Integrity

• Availability

• Data

Information security, or InfoSec, protects data in any form from being accessed, modified, _______, or deleted by the wrong people.

• shared

• uploaded

• terminated

• renamed

Examples of application security include all of the following EXCEPT...

• secure coding

• the use of antivirus programs

• firewalls

• transmitting data packets

_________ focuses on methods to hide and un-hide information so that data is only readable or usable by authorized people

• Cryptography

• Transmission protocol

• Partition splitting

• Uploading data