Cyberbullying
This term describes using digital devices like phones, computers, or tablets to send, post, or share negative, harmful, or false content about someone else.
What is cyberbullying?
This is usually the very first technical feature you should use on any app to completely stop a bully from messaging or viewing your profile.
What is the block feature?
This core pillar of the triad focuses on preventing unauthorized disclosure of information and keeping sensitive data a secret.
What is Confidentiality?
This pillar of the triad ensures that data remains accurate, complete, and completely unaltered by unauthorized parties during storage or transmission.
What is Integrity?
This pillar ensures that authorized users have reliable and timely access to their data, applications, and network resources whenever they need them.
What is Availability?
Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying can happen at any time of day or night, meaning the victim often feels like there is no safe ________.
What is a place (or haven/escape)?
Instead of deleting a mean message or comment, you should always do this to save proof of the cyberbullying.
What is take a screenshot?
This common cryptographic process scrambles readable text into unreadable ciphertext, ensuring only people with the correct key can read it.
What is encryption?
This mathematical function converts data into a fixed-size string of characters; if even a single character of the original file changes, this value changes entirely.
What is a cryptographic hash function (or hashing)?
This malicious attack floods a target server with a massive volume of fake traffic from thousands of infected devices, forcing the system offline.
What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?
This term refers to the permanent online record of a person's posts, comments, and digital actions, which can be affected by cyberbullying.
What is a digital footprint?
Experts universally agree that you should never do this to a cyberbully's messages, as it usually gives them the reaction they want.
What is respond (or retaliate)?
This security rule states that individuals should only be granted access to the specific data and tools necessary to perform their job duties, and nothing more.
What is the Principle of Least Privilege?
This security feature ensures that a person cannot deny having sent a message or performed an action online, often achieved through digital signatures.
What is non-repudiation?
This safety practice involves regularly creating secondary copies of critical system data so that it can be restored if the primary systems crash or get locked.
What is data backup?
When a bully hides behind a fake profile or an anonymous username online, they are practicing this concept.
What is anonymity (or being anonymous)?
If cyberbullying includes physical threats, extortion, or explicit images, this is the official agency that should be contacted immediately.
What is law enforcement (the police)?
This security mechanism requires users to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to an account, heavily shielding data from unauthorized viewers.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
This feature on a file system tracks edits, creations, and deletions, allowing security teams to see exactly who modified a piece of data and when.
What is an audit log (or system logging)?
This hardware design strategy involves duplicating critical components (like power supplies, servers, or internet lines) so that a backup instantly takes over if the primary fails.
What is redundancy?
This specific type of cyberbullying involves tricking someone into revealing secrets or private information, then sharing it publicly online.
What is outing (or trickery)?
Adjusting these options inside an app's menu can restrict who can comment on your posts or send you direct messages.
What are privacy settings?
This type of social engineering attack involves a malicious actor creating a fake scenario (like pretending to be an IT technician) to trick an employee into revealing confidential access credentials.
What is pretexting?
This specific network attack involves an adversary secretly intercepting, altering, and retransmitting data packets passing between two unsuspecting parties.
What is a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack?
Often measured in "nines" (e.g., 99.999%), this formal contract agreement defines the minimum percentage of time a cloud provider's services must remain up and running for its clients.
What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?