Cyber Attack
Illegal activities executed on the Internet.
What is Cybercrime?
A system (hardware or software) that prevents specific information from moving between untrusted networks
What is a Firewall?
A collection of data so large and complex that it is difficult to manage using traditional database management systems
What is Big Data?
An assigned address that uniquely identifies a computer on the internet
What is a IP Address?
A wired network consisting of a switch and network devices and a limited geographical area.
What is Local Area Network?
War in which a county's information systems could be paralyzed from a massive attack by deconstruction software
What is cyberwarfare?
The process of converting an original message into a form that cannot be read by anyone but the intended receiver
What is Encryption?
The software program that provides access to a database
What is a Database management system?
The communications standard used to transfer pages across WWW portion of the internet.
What is HTTP? Hypertext Transport Protocol
The type of network that commonly uses Bluetooth to connect mice, keyboards, phones, tablets, and wireless earbuds.
What is Personal Area network?
An attacker sends a flood a data packets to the target computer causing it to overload its resources making it slow or taking it offline
What is Denial-of-service attack?
A private combination of characters that only the user should know
What is a password?
An approach to managing information across an entire organization
What is a Data Governance?
A system of universally accepting standards for storing, receiving, formatting, and displaying information via a client/server architecture; it uses the transport functions of the internet
what is WWW? World Wide Web
A network that spans a large area
What is a Wide Area Network?
a premeditated, political motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data in results in violence against targets by groups.
What is cyberterrorism?
A private network that uses a public network to securely connect users by using encryption
What is a VPN? (Virtual private network)
Data collected about a users behavior and browsing patters by monitoring users and their activities when they view web sites
What is Clickstream data?
The protocol used when making a telephone call over the internet.
what is VoIP? Voice-over-internet protocol
A network that spans over a city
What is a Metropolitan area network? MAN
Sending a flood of packets from multiple compromised computers at the same time.
What is a Distributed denial-of-service attack?
A separate local area network that is located between the organizations internal network and external network
What is DMZ? (demilitarized zone)
A set of core data, such as customer, product, employee, vendor, location, and so on, that span the enterprise's information systems
What is Master Data?
A file transfer protocol that can be used to send large files of information across networks with assurance the data will arrive uncorrupted.
What is TCP/IP? Transmission control protocol/internet protocol
Connects multiple wireless access points together to expand the wireless network
What is a WMN Wireless mesh network?