Security
A NATO/NSA specification that details the allowable levels of compromising emanations from a hardware device.
What is TEMPEST?
The medium carrying the majority of the traffic on a network. Typically a single point of failure.
What is the network backbone?
The layer of the OSI model on which routers, and the IP protocol are located.
What is the network layer?
The network protocol that is normally mapped to TCP port 22.
What is SSH?
An unbreakable method of encryption that requires the key to be truly random.
What is the one time pad?
Malware hidden undetected inside a downloadable file.
What is a Trojan?
The network topology employed on Link 11 networks.
What is token ring?
What is a bridge?
A type of compression that degrades the quality of the original file.
What is lossy compression?
A function that maps an input of an arbitrary size to a fixed size output.
What is a hash function?
A targeted social engineering attack at a single high value target within an organization.
What is whaling?
A computer that relies on a server for the bulk of it's processing.
What is a thin client?
The four layers of a thinnet Ethernet cable.
What are the outer jacket, the braiding, the dielectric and the core.
The three types of bandwidth management provided by Riverbed/Steelhead QoS devices.
What are caching, compression and prioritization?
An algorithm for sharing a private key across an unsecured network.
What is the Diffie-Hellman key exchange?
A type of cyber attack that exploits human error rather than using a vulnerability in software or hardware.
What is a semantic attack?
A network contention algorithm that includes a pseudo-random wait time before a re-transmission attempt.
What is CSMA/CA?
The Ethernet naming convention for a 40 000 Mbps baseband long range single mode 4B/5B encoded fibre optic cable.
What is 40G Base ZX?
A packet shaping algorithm that divides packets into a fixed size segment of data before adding them to a queue.
What is the token bucket algorithm?
A private key encryption algorithm that uses 128-bit, 192-bit or 256-bit encryption keys.
What is AES?
Three factors considered in assessing the motive behind a cyber attack.
What are fear, spectacularity and vulnerability.
An American Level II (Secret) network consisting of the 15 eyes nations.
What is Combined Maritime Forces Pacific?
The RAID level that provides block level striping with parity to withstand a single drive failure with no data loss.
What is RAID5?
The TCP congestion management algorithm that sets the congestion window to the slow start threshold after each timeout.
What is TCP Reno?
A method of encryption that uses a session key transmitted along with cipher-text all encrypted by public key cryptography.
What is PGP?