SANS Cyber Security Questions And Answers With Latest Updates
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SANS Cyber Security Questions And Answers With Latest Updates
Ensures that resources are only granted to those users who are entitled to them. ANS Access Control
A mechanism that implements access control for a system resource by listing the identities of the system entities that are permitted...
SANS Cyber Security Questions And Answers With
Latest Updates
Ensures that resources are only granted to those users who are entitled to them. ANS Access
Control
A mechanism that implements access control for a system resource by listing the identities of the
system entities that are permitted to access the resource. (or referred to as ACL) ANS Access
Control List
A security service that provides protection of system resources against unauthorized access. The two
basic mechanisms for implementing this service are ACLs and tickets. ANS Access Control
Service
The maintenance of access information which consists of four tasks: account administration,
maintenance, monitoring, and revocation. ANS Access Management Access
Uses rows to represent subjects and columns to represent objects with privileges listed in each cell.
ANS Access Matrix
The process of collecting all the legitimate account names on a system. ANS Account Harvesting
The practice of sending an ACK inside another packet going to the same destination. ANS ACK
Piggybacking
Program code embedded in the contents of a web page. When the page is accessed by a web browser,
the embedded code is automatically downloaded and executed on the user's workstation. Ex. Java,
ActiveX (MS) ANS Active Content
Aim to prevent virus infection by monitoring for malicious activity on a system, and blocking that
activity when possible. ANS Activity Monitors
,A protocol for mapping an Internet Protocol address to a physical machine address that is recognized
in the local network. A table, usually called the ARP cache, is used to maintain a correlation between
each MAC address and its corresponding IP address. ARP provides the protocol rules for making this
correlation and providing address conversion in both directions. (ARP) ANS Address Resolution
Protocol
An encryption standard being developed by NIST. Intended to specify an unclassified, publicly-
disclosed, symmetric encryption algorithm. ANS Advanced Encryption Standards
A finite set of step-by-step instructions for a problem-solving or computation procedure, especially
one that can be implemented by a computer. ANS Algorithm
Java programs; an application program that uses the client's web browser to provide a user interface.
ANS Applet
A pioneer packet-switched network that was built in the early 1970s under contract to the US
Government, led to the development of today's Internet, and was decommissioned in June 1990.
(ARPANET) ANS Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
Public-key cryptography; A modern branch of cryptography in which the algorithms employ a pair of
keys (a public key and a private key) and use a different component of the pair for different steps of
the algorithm. ANS Asymmetric Cryptography
The fact that a small investment, properly leveraged, can yield incredible results. ANS
Asymmetric Warfare
The information gathering and analysis of assets to ensure such things as policy compliance and
security from vulnerabilities. ANS Auditing
The process of confirming the correctness of the claimed identity. ANS Authentication
The validity and conformance of the original information. ANS Authenticity
, The approval, permission, or empowerment for someone or something to do something. ANS
Authorization
One network or series of networks that are all under one administrative control; sometimes referred
to as a routing domain; assigned a globally unique number. (ASN) ANS Autonomous System
The need to ensure that the business purpose of the system can be met and that it is accessible to
those who need to use it. ANS Availability
A tool installed after a compromise to give an attacker easier access to the compromised system
around any security mechanisms that are in place. ANS Backdoor
Commonly used to mean the capacity of a communication channel to pass data through the channel
in a given amount of time. Usually expressed in bits per second ANS Bandwidth
The information that is displayed to a remote user trying to connect to a service. This may include
version information, system information, or a warning about authorized use. ANS Banner
The simplest web-based authentication scheme that works by sending the username and password
with each request. ANS Basic Authentication
Has been hardened in anticipation of vulnerabilities that have not been discovered yet. ANS
Bastion Host
An implementation of DNS. DNS is used for domain name to IP address resolution. (BIND)
ANS Berkeley Internet Name Domain
Uses physical characteristics of the users to determine access. ANS Biometrics
The smallest unit of information storage; a contraction of the term "binary digit;" one of two
symbolsÑ"0" (zero) and "1" (one) - that are used to represent binary numbers. ANS Bit
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