Question 1

How do prevention and resistance technologies stop intruders from accessing and reading sensitive information?

Accepted Answer

Content filtering, encryption, and firewalls are technologies used to prevent unauthorized access and ensure data security. Content filtering restricts access to inappropriate or harmful content, encryption scrambles data to make it unreadable without the correct decryption key, and firewalls act as barriers to block unauthorized access to a network.

Question 2

The best and most effective way to manage authentication is through ________.

Accepted Answer

Biometrics is considered the most effective way to manage authentication because it uses unique physical characteristics (such as fingerprints, facial recognition, or iris scans) that are difficult to replicate or steal, unlike passwords, tokens, or smart cards which can be lost, stolen, or duplicated.

Question 3

The most secure procedures combine which of the following authentication and authorization techniques?

Accepted Answer

The most secure procedures often involve a combination of factors for authentication and authorization, including something the user knows (like a password), something the user has (like a smart card), and something inherent to the user (like a fingerprint). This multi-factor approach significantly enhances security.

Question 4

What is a device that is around the same size as a credit card, containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing?

Accepted Answer

A smart card is a device similar in size to a credit card, with embedded technologies like a microchip that can store information and perform limited processing.

Question 5

What type of encryption technology uses multiple keys, one for public and one for private?

Accepted Answer

Public key encryption uses a pair of keys, a public key for encrypting messages and a private key for decrypting them.

Question 6

Which of the following occurs when organizations use software that filters content, such as email, to prevent the accidental or malicious transmission of unauthorized information?

Accepted Answer

Content filtering is used to prevent the transmission of unauthorized information by filtering content such as emails.

Question 7

What is a data file that identifies individuals or organizations online and is comparable to a digital signature?

Accepted Answer

A digital certificate is used to identify individuals or organizations online and can be compared to a digital signature. It uses public key infrastructure to verify the holder's identity and encrypt information.

Question 8

What is a method for confirming users' identities?

Accepted Answer

Authentication is the process of confirming users' identities.

Question 9

Which of the following protection techniques scans and searches hard drives to prevent, detect, and remove known viruses, adware, and spyware?

Accepted Answer

Antivirus software is specifically designed to scan, detect, and remove viruses, along with other malicious software like adware and spyware, from computers and networks.

Question 10

Which of the following is the main drawback of biometrics?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

What prevention technique scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt?

Accepted Answer

Encryption is the process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access, by scrambling the information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt.

Question 12

What is the most secure type of authentication?

Accepted Answer

The most secure type of authentication is a combination of something the user knows (like a password), something the user has (like a smart card or token), and something that is part of the user (like a fingerprint or voice signature). This multi-factor approach significantly enhances security by requiring multiple forms of verification.

Question 13

A smart card is a device the size of a credit card that contains embedded technology that stores information and small amounts of software, and can act as ________.

Accepted Answer

A smart card can serve multiple functions including identification, digital cash transactions, and data storage, making all the options applicable.

Question 14

What is the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting?

Accepted Answer

Biometrics refers to the identification and verification of individuals based on their physical or behavioral characteristics, such as fingerprints, iris patterns, facial features, voice, or handwriting.

Question 15

What must you do with antivirus software to make it protect effectively?

Accepted Answer

Antivirus software must be frequently updated to ensure it can protect against the latest viruses and malware, as new threats are constantly being developed.

Question 16

What is hardware or software that guards a private network by analyzing incoming and outgoing information for the correct markings?

Accepted Answer

A firewall is a network security device that monitors and filters incoming and outgoing network traffic based on an organization's previously established security policies. At its most basic, a firewall is essentially the barrier that sits between a private internal network and the public Internet.

Question 17

Which of the following is not considered a form of biometrics?

Accepted Answer

Biometrics refers to the measurement and statistical analysis of people's unique physical and behavioral characteristics. Passwords, unlike iris scans, fingerprints, and handwriting, do not fall under the category of biometrics because they are knowledge-based security measures rather than physiological or behavioral traits.

Question 18

Charles Mott works for a company called VeriSign that acts a trusted third party to verify information. One of Charles' largest clients is CheckMd, which holds and authenticates customer reviews of doctors and dentists online and having a third party validating the reviews is critical to CheckMd's success. What type of authentication technique is VeriSign providing for CheckMD?

Accepted Answer

VeriSign, acting as a trusted third party to verify information, is functioning as a Certificate Authority (CA). A CA issues digital certificates to verify the ownership of encrypted keys used in secured communications and is essential for establishing a secure and trusted online presence, such as authenticating customer reviews for CheckMd.

Question 19

What can encryption technology perform?

Accepted Answer

Encryption technology can perform all of the listed actions (switch the order of characters, replace characters with other characters, and insert or remove characters) as part of its process to secure data.

Question 20

Which of the following systems is designed with full-time monitoring tools that search for patterns in network traffic to identify intruders and to protect against suspicious network traffic which attempts to access files and data?

Accepted Answer

Intrusion Detection Software (IDS) is designed to monitor network traffic continuously to detect suspicious activity and potential intruders by searching for patterns or anomalies that may indicate a security threat.

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