Information Security
All process designed to protect an organization's information from unauthorized access
What is Information Security?
An attack in which the perpetrator uses social skills to manipulate an employee into providing confidential information such as passwords
What is Social Engineering?
Property created by individuals or corporations that is protected under copyright laws
What is intellectual property?
Model based on the concept of two-dimensional tables
What is a relational database model?
Local area network
What is a LAN?
A malicious act in which attackers use a target's computer systems to cause physical, real-world harm, often to carry out a political agenda
What is cyberterrorism?
Copying a software program without payment to the owner
What is piracy?
A private network that uses a public network to connect users
What is a virtual private network or VPN?
A diagram that represents entities in the database and their relationships
What is a data model?
A network that covers a large geographical area
What is a WAN?
Illegal activities conducted over computer networks
What is Cybercrime?
Threats that com from the internet, natural disasters, or a man-made disaster
What are Outside Threats?
Strategy in which the organization accepts the potential risk of damage any damage, and absorbs it, continuing to operate with no controls
What is risk acceptance?
Each quality of a particular endtity
What is an attribute?
High-speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks connect
What are backbone networks?
Small amounts of information that Web sites store on your computer
A software that collects personal information about users without their consent
What is spyware?
A grant that provides the creators or owners of intellectual property with ownership of the property
The identifier field for a record in a database
What is the primary key?
Discrete pulses that represent a series of bits by being either on or off
What are digital signals?
The likelihood that the system will be harmed by a threat
What is a Vulnerability?
These types of threats include threats from employees, hardware threats, and even other insideres
What are Inside Threats?
An official document that grants the holder exclusive rights to an invention for a specific amount of time
What is a patent?
A field in one table that identifies a row of another table
What is a foreign key?
Strands of copper wire that are twisted in pairs