Cybersecurity
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OSC
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100

Overlapping layers of protection put in place so that if one layer fails other layers succeed in protecting is known as....

What is Defense in Depth?

100

Standards for OSC audits

What is Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)?

100

Sweetener that never goes bad

What is honey?

200

Is the risk presented to an organization by current or past employees who have knowledge of how the organization works and what and where the most valuable (damaging) information might reside.

What is an Insider threat?

200

Risk Assessment, Control Environment, Control Activities, Information and Communication, Monitoring.

What are the five components of COSO's internal control?

200

During 2024, investigations had how many arrests?

What is 35? 

FUN FACT: Over $14M recovered

200

Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages

What is CCTV?

200

Name a bird that cannot fly

What is an ostrich, penguin or kiwi?

300

Any combination of your name, your home address or phone number, credit card or account numbers or social security number.

What is PII? (or Personally Identifiable Information)

300

Any information or data that is collected and used to provide a factual (and reasonable) basis for developing findings and conclusions that answer the audit's objective.

What is audit evidence?

300

Comptroller DiNapoli was first elected in

What is 2010?

300

New York State has how many counties?

What is 62 counties?
300

Most consumed chocolate bar in the world

What is snickers?

400

Easily readable programs that automate or provide extra function on a computer system or in an application or browser. ActiveX and JavaScript are examples of this type of language.

What is Scripting? (or Scripting Code or Scripting Language)

400

Criteria, cause, condition, effect and recommendation

What are the five elements of a finding?

400

The Comptroller has how many office locations throughout the state?

What is 12? 

Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Binghamton, Newburgh, NYC, Hauppauge, Albany, Menands, Troy and Glens Falls.

400

What is a separate, special-purpose local government created to provide fire protection, usually to an area of a town outside of a village?

What is a fire district?

400

Number of hours in one year

What is 8,760 hours?

500

The weakest link in every computer system. The one person who can through thoughtlessness, unawareness or accident, cause loss of work products through deletion, corruption or improperly safeguarding data.

Who are you? (Who am I?)

500

Using a questioning mind and a critical assessment of audit evidence is known as using?

What is professional skepticism?

500

LGSA released how many audit reports in 2024?

What is 245?

500

What are the odds of getting injured by a toilet seat in your lifetime?

What is 1 in 6500?

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