Cybersecurity Concepts Quiz

The three concepts that form what is often referred to as the CIA triad are. These three concepts embody the fundamental security objectives for both data and for information and computing services.

• confidentiaity, integrity and availability

• communication, integrity and authentication

• confidentiality, integrity, access control

• communication, information and authenticity

A loss of ___ is the unauthorized disclosure of information.

• authenticity

• confidentiality

• reliability

• integrity

Verifying that users are who they say they are and that each input arriving at the system came from a trusted source is ___.

• authenticity

• credibility

• accountability

• integrity

A ___ is any action that compromises the security of information owned by an organization.

• security attack

• security service

• security alert

• security mechanism

___ is the protection of transmitted data from passive attacks.

• Access control

• Data control

• Nonrepudiation

• Confidentiality

A(n) ___ service is one that protects a system to ensure its availability and addresses the security concerns raised by denial-of-service attacks.

• replay

• availability

• masquerade

• integrity

A(n) ___ is a potential for violation of security, which exists when there is a circumstance, capability, action, or event that could breach security and cause harm.

• threat

• attack

• risk

• attack vector

The protection of the information that might be derived from the observation of traffic flows is ___.

• connectionless confidentiality

• connection confidentiality

• traffic-flow confidentiality

• selective-field confidentiality

Data appended to, or a cryptographic transformation of, a data unit that allows a recipient of the data unit to prove the source and integrity of the data unit and protect against forgery is a(n) ___.

• security audit trail

• digital signature

• encipherment

• authentication exchange

___ techniques map plaintext elements (characters, bits) into ciphertext elements.

• Transposition

• Substitution

• Traditional

• Symmetric