Information security
Data and Knowledge management
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an attack in which the perpetrator uses social skills to trick or manipulate legitimate employees into providing confidential company information such as passwords

What is Social Engineering
100

refers primarily to problems with the media on which the data are stored. Over time, temperature, humidity, and exposure to light can cause physical problems with storage media and thus make it difficult to access the data

What is data rot?

100

 a set of instructions that serves primarily as an intermediary between computer hardware and application programs

what is Systems Software

100

clandestine soft ware that is installed on your computer through duplicitous methods

what is Alien Software

200

software that causes pop-up advertisements to appear on your screen

what is Adware

200

Corporate databases and company documents

What is Internal sources

200

a set of computer instructions that provides more specific functionality to a user

what is Application Software

200

unsolicited e-mail, usually advertising for products and services

what is spam

300

small amounts of information that Web sites store on your computer temporarily or more or less permanently


What is cookies?

300

Commercial databases, government reports, and corporate Web sites

what is External sources?

300

is purchased soft ware that has restrictions on its use, copying, and modification. The company that develops proprietary software keeps the source code private

what is Proprietary Software

300

Big Data formats change rapidly and can include include satellite imagery, broadcast audio streams, digital music files, Web page content.


what is Variety

400

the chain of events linking planning to protection and to recovery

What is Business continuity?

400

an approach to managing information across an entire organization involving a formal set of unambiguous rules for creating, collecting, handling, and protecting its information

what is Data governance

400

guides the user through computer applications by using cartoon-like characters, graphics, animation, and voice commands

Social Interface

400

A repository of historical data that are organized by subject to support decision makers in the organization

what is Data warehouse

500

 confirms the identity of the person requiring access

what is authentication?

500

a set of core data that span the enterprise information systems

what is Master data

500

another type of human-computer interface 

what is Motion Control Gaming Consoles

500


refers to the transmission capacity of a network; it is stated in bits per second

what is Bandwidth

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