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CSX Cybersecurity Fundamentals Practice Questions and Answers
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CSX Cybersecurity Fundamentals:Practice Questions and Answers
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- access controls - Answer -Three common controls used to protect the availability of
information are
Providing strategic direction, Ensuring that objectives are achieved, Verifying that
organizational resources are being used appropriately, Ascertaining whether risk is being
managed properly. - Answer -Governance has several goals, including
- Protect,
- Recover
- Identify - Answer -According to the NIST framework, which of the following are
considered key functions necessary for the protection of digital assets?
Protecting information assets by addressing threats to information that is processed,
stored or transported by interworked information systems - Answer -The best definition for
cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity management - Answer -Cybersecurity role that is charged with the duty of
managing incidents and remediation?
risk to an organization's digital assets. - Answer -The core duty of cybersecurity is to
identify, respond and manage
is anything capable of acting against an asset in a manner that can cause harm. - Answer -
A threat
is something of value worth protecting. - Answer -A asset
is a weakness in the design, implementation, operation or internal controls in a process
that could be exploited to violate the system security - Answer -A vulnerability
attack vector - Answer -The path or route used to gain access to the target asset is known
as a
, payload - Answer -In an attack, the container that delivers the exploit to the target is called
communicate required and prohibited activities and behaviors. - Answer -Policies
is a class of malware that hides the existence of other malware by modifying the underlying
operating system. - Answer -Rootkit
provide details on how to comply with policies and standards. - Answer -Procedures
contain step-by-step instructions to carry out procedures. - Answer -Guidelines
also called malicious code, is software designed to gain access to targeted computer
systems, steal information or disrupt computer operations. - Answer -Malware
are used to interpret policies in specific situations. - Answer -Standards
are solutions to software programming and coding errors. - Answer -Patches
includes many components such as directory services, authentication and authorization
services, and user management capabilities such as provisioning and deprovisioning. -
Answer -Identity Management
Detect and block traffic from infected internal end points, Eliminate threats such as email
spam, viruses and worms, Control user traffic bound toward the Internet, Monitor and
detect network ports for rogue activity. - Answer -The Internet perimeter should
ensures that data are transferred reliably in the correct sequence - Answer -Transport
layer of the OSI
coordinates and manages user connections - Answer -Session layer of the OSI
Encryption is an essential but incomplete form of access control - Answer -best states the
role of encryption within an overall cybersecurity program
Asset value, criticality, reliability of each control and degree of exposure. - Answer -The
number and types of layers needed for defense in depth are a function of
Least privilege or access control - Answer -System hardening should implement the
principle of
Accounting management, Fault management, Performance management, Security
management - Answer -Which of the following are considered functional areas of network
management as defined by ISO?
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