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Random or seemingly unrelated facts, numbers, words, or statistics.
What is Data?
Overlapping layers of protection put in place so that if one layer fails other layers succeed in protecting is known as....
What is Defense in Depth?
To apply or maintain permissions to prevent an account from getting information they are not authorized to see while making the information available to those who are authorized.
What is Access Control?
They are people who traditionally tried to gain access to computers remotely to learn more and for intellectual curiosity. Currently, they only make up 17% of computer intrusions.
Who are hackers?
A program that is designed only to read Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) web pages downloaded from Internet websites. They can have helpers or add-on functions incorporated by using interpreters to read the additional instructions and provide different web content types. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari are examples of these.
What is a browser? (or web browser)
Data compiled into documents, maps, charts, and other forms of information that gives assets a dollar _____________
What is Value?
The list of computers, laptops, software, equipment owned by an organization.
What is Inventory?
A unique identifier that tracks actions to individuals.
What is an Account? (or Login ID)
Is the risk presented to an organization by current or past employees who have knowledge of how the organization works and what and where the most valuable (damaging) information might reside.
What is Insider threat?
Easily readable programs that automate or provide extra function on a computer system or in an application or browser. Python, ActiveX and JavaScript are examples of this type of language.
What is Scripting? (or Scripting Code or Scripting Language)
Any combination of your name, home address, phone number, credit card or account numbers, or social security number.
What is PII? (or Personally Identifiable Information)
The use of personality, knowledge of human nature, and social skills used to steal passwords, keys tokens or other credentials to gain access to systems.
What is Social Engineering?
Functional managers that classify data and grant approval to those whose jobs require access to the information.
Who are Data Managers?
These are well run groups of crooks who methodically look for computer vulnerabilities to steal large numbers of financial or credit card accounts for financial profit.
Who are organized crime groups?
A type of a program that takes scripting language and reads it so it can be acted on by a browser or an application. These are found in almost all operating systems, web browsers and many commercial off the shelf application programs.
What is an Interpreter?
The evidence of daily decisions and operations within DOI and its bureaus/offices.
What are Federal Records?
30-50% of all data loss due to the people already within the organization.
What is Insider Threat?
As a result of the VA breach in 2006 where PII of over a million veterans was lost, it is now a requirement to delete all sensitive data extracts on individual computers after this number of days.
What is 90 days?
They are structured groups funded by governments and dedicated to mapping out the internet addresses for the purpose of espionage and possible computer attacks.
What is state sponsored hacking?
The contents of electronic documents that can carry out or trigger actions automatically, on a computer platform, without the intervention of a user. It includes built in macro processing, scripting languages, or virtual machines. A significant share of today’s malware involves this type of programs.
What is Active Content?
A legal notification directing you or the bureau/office to preserve any documentary material that may be relevant to a pending or foreseeable lawsuit or administrative adjudication.
What is Litigation Hold?
A necessary process to limit the kinds of hardware and software which minimizes the number of different vulnerabilities and reduces exposure to security weaknesses.
What is Standardization?
It is a word or phrase that verifies that you and only you had access to the account.
What is a Password?
The weakest link in every computer system. The one person who can through thoughtlessness, unawareness or accident, cause loss of work products through deletion, corruption or improperly safeguarding data.
Who are you? (Who am I?)
A program, script, macro or other portable instruction, that can be shipped unchanged to a variety of platforms and executed with the same result. Some of the most common forms of mobile code are JavaScript, Asynchronous JavaScript and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) or AJAX, Java applets, ActiveX, and Flash. It is being adapted to run on cell phones, PDAs, and other devices.
What is Mobile Code?