The Star of the North
Cyber Security
State System Abbrevs
Don't Audit Me
IT Miscellany
100

Metropolitan stadium, home to great moments for the Twins and Vikings, was demolished in 1985 to make way for this world famous shopping center.

What is the Mall of America?

100

This phrase describes overlapping layers of protection put in place so that if one layer fails other layers succeed in protecting data and systems.

What is Defense in Depth?

100

SWIFT

What is StateWide Integrated Financial Tools?

100

The room you are sitting in right now was named after this person (Name and title).

Who is Henry Martyn Knox, Minnesota's first Public Examiner (1878-1888)?

100

If I were a byte, I’d be this many bits.

What is 8?

200

Born James Janos in Minneapolis in 1951, this person was elected governor in 1998.

Who is Jesse Ventura?

200

This organization publishes a  list of the 10 most common web application security risks.

Who is OWASP?

200

BPAS

What is the Budget Planning and Analysis System?

200

These components make up each side of the Fraud Triangle. 

What are Opportunity, Pressure, and Rationalization?

200

First introduced in 2012, this deliciously named board is a favorite of makers.

What is Raspberry Pi?

300

This NBA team name made sense when they were in Minnesota. Now they should change their name to "The Smog"

Who is the LA Lakers?

300

This phrase describes 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

METS

What is the Minnesota Eligibility Technology System?

300

This MNIT Standard's Control #25 describes the contract requirements for third party vendors that store, process or transmit State data.

What is the Secure Systems Development and Acquisition Standard?

300

When it's not solving mysteries with Sherlock Holmes, this platform is capable of answering questions posed in natural language. 

What is IBM Watson? (Or WatsonX)

400

The name of this Minnesota city comes from the Dakota word for Water and the Greek Word for City.

What is Minneapolis?

400

While it doesn't use needles, this type of attack can read sensitive data from the database, modify database data (Insert/Update/Delete), execute administration operations on the database and in some cases issue commands to the operating system.

What is SQL Injection?

400

RWIS

What is the Road and Weather Information System?

400

Use one hand to count these elements of a finding.

What are:

1. Condition

2. Effect

3. Cause

4. Criteria

5. Recommendation

400

Often associated with the software development strategy of Agile, this software engineering practice that unifies software operations with software development.

What is DevOps?

500

Fried, baked, or boiled and served with butter, this Minnesota state fish makes for the perfect shore lunch.

What is the Walleye?

500

This is a legal notification directing you or the agency to preserve any documentary material that may be relevant to a pending or foreseeable lawsuit or administrative adjudication.

What is a Litigation (or Legal) Hold?

500

EDIAM

What is the Education Identity and Access Management Security System?

500

These methods allow you to test the operating effectiveness of a control (name 3). 

What are Inquiry, Inspection, Observation, and Reperformance?

500

Select each picture that includes a bus. CAPTCHA stands for this (name at least 4 of the words). 

What is Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart?

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