Protecting an organization's information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What is information security?
100
Crime in which someone uses the personal information of others to create a false identity and then uses it for some fraud. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What is identity theft?
100
A low-cost, scaled down version of a data warehouse that is designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit or a department. (Rainer, Prince pg. 158)
What is a data mart?
100
A network that covers a large geographical area. (Rainer, Prince pg. 166)
What is a Wide Are Network(WAN)?
100
A defense mechanism. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What is a control?
200
A massive global WAN that connects approximately 1 million organizational computer networks in more than 200 countries on all continents. (Rainer, Prince pg. 192)
What is Internet?
200
Malicious software that can attach itself with other computer programs without the owner of the program being aware of the infection. (Rainer, Prince pg. 117)
What are computer viruses?
200
Information technologies used to systematize, enhance, and expedite intra- and interfirm knowledge management. (Rainer, Prince pg. 158)
What are knowledge management systems?
200
A network that connects two of more devices in a limited geographical region. (Rainer, Prince pg. 165)
What is a Local Area Network(LAN)?
200
Controls that restrict unauthorized individuals from using information resources and are concerned with user identification. (Rainer, Prince pg. 115)
What are access controls?
300
A system that connects computers and other devices via communications media so that data and information can be transmitted among them. (Rainer, Prince pg. 191)
What is a computer network?
300
War in which a country's information systems could be paralyzed from a massive attack by destructive software. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What is cyberwarfare?
300
Data model based on the simple concept of tables in order to capitalize on characteristics of rows and columns of data. (Rainer, Prince pg. 158)
What is a relational database model?
300
Relatively large computer networks that cover a metropolitan area. (Rainer, Prince pg. 165)
What is a metropolitan area network(MAN)?
300
Controls that deal with the movement of data across networks. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What are communications controls?
400
A collection of data so large and complex that it is difficult to manage using traditional database management systems. (Rainer, Prince pg. 158)
What is Big Data?
400
Clandestine software that is installed on your computer through duplicitous methods. (Rainer, Prince pg. 115)
What is alien software?
400
A repository of historical data that are organized by subject to support decision makers in an organization. (Rainer, Prince pg.158)
What is a data warehouse?
400
An organization's network composed of interconnected multiple LANs and WANs.
What is an enterprise network?
400
Controls that restrict unauthorized individuals from gaining access to a company's computer facilities. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What are physical controls?
500
A set of core data. (Rainer, Prince pg. 158)
What is master data?
500
A premeditated, politically motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data that results in violence against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)
What is cyberterrorism?
500
An approach to managing information across an entire organization. (Rainer, Prince pg. 158)
What is data governance?
500
High-speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks connect. (Rainer, Prince pg. 191)
What is a backbone network?
500
A private combination of characters that only the user should know. (Rainer, Prince pg. 116)