Data Security
The conversion of data from a readable format to an encoded format.
What is Encryption?
The practice of sending fraudulent emails designed to trick a person into revealing sensitive information, usually over email.
What is Phishing?
An unpredictable combination of letters, numbers and special characters that prevents unauthorized access.
What is Password?
Hackers with various skill levels that are usually politically motivated.
What are Hacktivists?
This pharmaceutical company was the victim of intellectual property theft when an employee stole 12,000 confidential documents with data on the COVID-19 vaccine.
Who is Pfizer?
The process of determining and managing who has access to data, apps, and resources.
What is Access Control?
A form of malware that locks the user out of their files or device and demands a payment to restore access (usually cryptocurrency).
What is Ransomware?
The process of upgrading to a new version of software when it becomes available.
What is Software Update?
The risk presented to an organization by current or past employees who have knowledge of how the organization works and where the most valuable information might reside.
What is Insider Threat?
This social media giant suffered a massive spear-phishing attack in July 2020. Cybercriminals gained control over famous accounts and staged fake Bitcoin giveaways.
Who is Twitter?
Wiping your devices clean of data so malicious individuals will no longer have the ability to access that data.
What is Secure Data Destruction?
Pop-up ads that appear on your computer or device and can direct to malicious websites or put you at risk for computer viruses.
What is Adware?
A program designed to detect and remove viruses and other kinds of malicious software from your computer or device.
What is Anti-Virus?
Hackers that use pre-existing scripts or automated tools, usually with minimal technical knowhow.
What are Script Kiddies?
This university paid 1.14 million in bitcoin to ransomware attackers in June 2020 to recover important data.
Who is UCSF?
The process of duplicating data to allow retrieval of the duplicate set after a data loss event.
What is Data Backup?
An attack that uses malicious SQL code for backend data manipulation to access private information.
What is SQL Injections?
An authentication method that requires the user to successfully provide multiple verification factors to gain access to a system.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication?
A cyber attack that steals classified data to gain advantage over another competitive company or government.
What is Corporate Espionage?
In 2018, this hotel giant announced that hackers had gained access to the personal information of 500 million costumers. They were fined 18.4 million pounds for failing to protect customer data.
Who is Marriott?
The process of creating a version of data that looks structural similar to the original but hides sensitive information.
What is Data Masking?
An attack that floods a network server with traffic until it crashes, preventing access for legitimate users.
What is Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attack?
The process of repairing a vulnerability that is identified after the release of an application or software.
What is Patching?
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?
In 2015, this organization was issued with a $7.5 million fine for its failure to report the breach of 4.5M records in a timely manner, a violation of the breach notification protocol specified under HIPAA.
Who is UCLA Health?