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Cyber Security Exam Review Questions and Answers Cryptography The science of transforming information into a secure form so that it can be transmitted or stored and unauthorized persons cannot access it Steganography Takes data, divides it into smaller sections, and hides it in unused po...

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  • September 17, 2024
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  • cyber security exam review questions and answers
  • cryptography the science of transforming informati
  • cleartext data that is in an unencrypted form
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Cyber Security Exam Review Questions
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Cryptography - answer the science of transforming information into a secure form so
that it can be transmitted or stored and unauthorized persons cannot access it

Steganography - answer Takes data, divides it into smaller sections, and hides it in
unused portions of a file

Cleartext - answer Data that is in an unencrypted form

Decryption - answer To change the secret message back to its original form

Key - answer A mathematical value entered into the algorithm to produce ciphertext

Ciphertext - answer Text that is "scrambled"

GPG - answer Versions run on Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems

PGP - answer Uses RSA for protecting digital signatures and 3DES or IDEA for
symmetric encryption

EFS - answer A cryptography system for Windows operating systems that use the
Windows NTFS file system

Digital certificate - answer A technology used to associate a user's identity to a public
key that has been "digitally signed" by a trusted third party

CR - answer A publicly accessible centralized directory of digital certificates that can be
used to view the status of a digital certificate

PKCS - answer A numbered set of PKI standards that have been defined by the RSA
Corporation

CP - answerA published set of rules that govern the operation of a PKI

SSH - answerAn encrypted alternative to the Telnet protocol that is used to access
remote computers

IPsec - answerA set of protocols developed to support the secure exchange of packets

, Transport mode - answerEncrypts only the data portion (payload) of each packet yet
leaves the header encrypted

Tunnel mode - answerEncrypts both the header and the data portion

Risk - answerThe likelihood that a threat agent will exploit a vulnerability

Cyberterrorism - answerIntended to cause panic, provoke violence, or result in a
financial catastrophe

Threat agent - answerA person or thing that has the power to carry out a threat

Computer spy - answerA person who has been hired to break into a computer and steal
information

Asset - answerSomething that has value

Exploit - answerTo take advantage of a vulnerability

Threat - answerAn event or action that might defeat security measures in place and
result in a loss

Vulnerability - answerA weakness that allows a threat agent to bypass security

Procedures - answerPlans and policies established by an organization to ensure that
people correctly use the products

Zero day attack - answerExploits previously unknown vulnerabilities so victims have no
time to prepare or defend against the attacks

Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack - answerInjects scripts into a Web application server
that will then direct attacks at clients

Directory traversal attack - answerTakes advantage of vulnerability in the Web
application program or the Web server software so that a user can move from the root
directory to other restricted directories

Command injection - answerThe ability to move to another directory could allow an
unauthorized user to view confidential files or even enter commands to execute on a
server

Client-side attack - answerTargets vulnerabilities in client applications that interact with
a compromised server or process malicious data

First-party cookie - answerCreated from the Web site that a user is currently viewing

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