Staying Active
When you create an active directory domain, this is the name of the default user account.
What is administrator?
This chilly phrase means "to start a conversation in a social situation to relieve tension.
What is "Break the ice"?
This fraudulent practice involves sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.
What is phishing?
This type of security control acts against in-person intrusion attempts.
What is a Physical Control?
This is a free and open-source GUI-based packet analyzer that is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education.
What is wireshark?
Domain, tree, forest and objects are the four major components of this technology.
What is Active Directory?
This feline phrase means "to reveal a secret accidentally".
What is "let the cat out of the bag"?
An email spoofing attack targeting a specific organization or individual by seeking unauthorized access to sensitive information.
What is spear phishing?
This type of security control discourages intrusion attempts.
What is a Deterrent Control?
This piece of hardware or software records data from frames as they pass over network media using methods such as a mirrored port or tap device.
What is a Packet Sniffer?
Active Directory uses this protocol for working with various directory services to store user and account information, as well as passwords.
What is LDAP?
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What is "Bite the bullet"?
An impersonation attack in which the attacker gains control of an employee's account and uses it to convince other employees to perform fraudulent actions.
What is Business Email Compromise (BEC)?
This type of security control acts to eliminate or reduce the likelihood that an attack can succeed.
What is a Preventative Control?
This is a software capable of detecting and removing virus infections and (in most cases) other types of malwares, such as worms, Trojans, rootkits, adware, spyware, password crackers, network mappers, DoS tools, and others.
What is an Antivirus?
This technology is a virtual collection of policy settings, security permissions, and scope of management that you can apply to users and computers in Active Directory.
What is a Group Policy Object?
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What is "burn the midnight oil"?
This attack involves a threat actor secretly relaying and possibly altering the communications between two parties who believe that they are directly communicating with each other, where in actuality the attacker has inserted themselves between the two user parties.
What is a Man-in-the-Middle or On-path Attack?
This type of control may not prevent or deter access, but will identify and record any attempted or successful intrusion.
What is a Detective Control?
This software and/or hardware system scans, audits, and monitors the security infrastructure for signs of attacks in progress.
What is an IDS? (Intrusion Detection System)
This protocol is a network authentication protocol, and is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography.
What is Kerberos?
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What is "Kick the bucket"?
This attack uses social engineering to infect a website and its visitors with malware. The infection usually spreads through a website specific to the victims' industry, like a popular website visited regularly.
What is a Watering-Hole Attack?
This type of control actively monitors for potential vulnerabilities or attacks, and then takes action to mitigate them before they can cause damage.
What is Responsive Control?
What is an IPS? (Intrusion Prevention System)