Information
What is an IP address?
While it's important to have safeguards and firewalls and quality equipment like routers, make sure your ______________ is set up in a physically secure way as well!
What is a Network?
A word, phrase, or combination of characters that gives users access
What is a Password?
Big picture ideas, made up of controls
What is a framework?
The theory of __________ ___________ states that if someone does not need access to information, then there is no reason to give it to them
What is Least Privlege?
The list of computers, laptops, tangible products, equipment etc owned by an organization.
What are physical assets?
A tool with a dashboard and logs that helps you gather data about what is happening on your next
What is an audit?
The main NIST framework involves:
___________, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover
What is Identify?
This type of training, which has the acronym "EAT," involves teaching employees about common cybersecurity issues and how they can help
Employee Awareness Training
Often known as MFA or 2fa, this safeguard helps protect your account information
What is Multi Factor Authentication?
You might install this to help block malicious actors from entering your network
What is a firewall?
This "triangular" principle is used to ensure that Cybersecurity professionals act accordingly
What is the CIA triad?
This term for a type of PII implies a heightened "sense" of importance
What is SPII?
30-50% of all data loss, due to the people already within the organization, can be blamed on this type of threat? (use the cybersecurity term)
What is an Insider Threat?
As a result of the breach of this company, 127 million Americans had their information exposed
What is AT&T?
a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.
What is ransomware?
This organization is the leader in creating frameworks and principles for the world of Cybersecurity
What is NIST?
Scrambled data so that whoever sees it can't decipher what it means
What is encryption?
The use of personality, inowledge of human nature and social skills to steal passwords, keys tokens or other credentials to gain access to systems.
What is social engineering?
A data security process that enables organizations to manage who is authorized to access corporate data and resource
Access Control
(will also accept privilege)
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 is "the user?"
After Comptia+ certification, many cybersecurity professionals attempt to get this all encompassing credential
(Certified Informations Security Systems Professional)