Exam 12: Information Security Management

Beacons are tiny files that gather demographic information and use different codes to identify users by age, gender, location, likely income, and online activity.

Faulty service includes incorrectly billing customers or sending the wrong information to employees, but not incorrect data modification.

Which of the following statements about human safeguards for employees is true?

________ are the primary means of authentication and are important not just for access to a user's computer, but also for authentication to other networks and servers to which the user may have access.

You are transferring funds online through the Web site of a reputed bank.Which of the following displayed in your browser's address bar will let you know that the bank is using the SSL protocol?

Unlike credit, debit, and ATM cards, which have a magnetic strip, smart cards have a microchip.

What are the key elements of a security policy?

Which of the following is considered a computer crime?

________ present the largest risk for an organization's infrastructure loss.

The existence of accounts that are no longer in use are not a security threat to an organization.

Describe six antimalware techniques.

Maintaining the computers that run a DBMS in a locked room is a part of ________.

Because of uncertainty, risk management is always approximate.

Most email and IM are protected by encryption.

A(n)________ is a computer program that senses when another computer is attempting to scan the disk or otherwise access a computer.

What is a major difference between spyware and adware?

Natural disasters present the largest risk for infrastructure loss.

A magnetic strip holds far more data than a microchip.

Technical safeguards involve the hardware and software components of an information system.

When an employee is terminated, IS administrators should receive advance notice so they can ________.