Network
Attacks
Firewall
Security Controls
Famous people
100

Layer 7 of the OSI model

What is the Application layer?

100

These are malicious programs that replicate themselves and infect other files and systems

What is a Virus?

100

To detect attacks based on signatures

What is IDS?

100

Means that only certain information should only be known to certain people.

What is Confidentiality? 

100

He created SOC Prime, also given the nickname of father of sigma rules. He used to be a detection engineer.

Florian Roth

200

IPv4, IPv6, IPX, SPX, and Appletalk are all examples of a protocol 

What is a Routed Protocol?

200

Fraudsters use phone calls and voice messages to impersonate reputable organizations. 

What is Vishing?

200

Installed on the edge of a private network or network segment

What is Network based firewall?

200

Device in which prevents attacks such as SQLinjections, XSS, and etc

What is WAF?

200

An American computer security consultant, best known for his high profile arrest in 1995 and spent five years in prison. He was found with multiple cloned phones and false identifications. Has many books and movies. 

Who is Kevin Mitnick?

300

These are layer 2 devices used to define collision domains with independent bandwidth on each port. 

What is a Switch?

300

Overwhelm the systems resources, causing it to be unable to respond to legitimate service requests. 

What is DOS? 

300

Makes decisions about which network traffic to allow by examining info in the IP packet header. 

What is Packet filtering firewall?

300

Authenticates and allows outbound/inbound communication. Uses ports 25

What is email gateway?

300

A Russian cybersecurity expert, founded and built an IT security company with more than 4000 employees. Was interested in cyber because his computer was infected with the Cascade Virus in 1989. (very famous company) 

Who is Eugene Kaspersky?

400

Port used for file transfer.

What is port 21

400

Involves using social skills to get information that should be confidential to a person/company

What is social engineering?
400

To prevent attacks based on signatures


What is IPS?

400

Meant to protect against threats to humans well-being.

What is a safety Control?

400

An American citizen that was banned from the US due to his intentions and release of information. Leaked highly classified information from the NSA in 2013

Who is Edward Snowden?

500

Class B IP address from 169.254.0.0 to 169.254.255.255.

Self-assigned IP addressing

What is APIPA?

500

A malicious program that is hidden inside a seemingly legitimate one. 

What is a Trojan Horse?
500

As another part of a layer security strategy, software firewalls should be deployed to the hosts and guest that will support them.

What is host based firewall?

500

defines whether an action is allowed or not for specific users or applications. 

Privileges or permissions

500

part of the D.E.A.T.H Team famous on twitter for many cyber related news. Graduated from the university of Abdulaziz, currently works for a government related facility.

Who is Malek Al Dossary?