Exam 14: Risks, security, and Disaster Recovery

An issuer of digital certificates is called a ____.

The greater the number of interdependent systems,the greater the expected downtime.

Several manufacturers of computer equipment offer individual keyboard-embedded and mouse-embedded fingerprint devices.

Encryption slows down communication because the software must encrypt and decrypt every message.

Companies that choose not to fully develop their own recovery plan can outsource it to companies that specialize in either disaster recovery planning or provision of alternative sites.

____ is a set of disks that is programmed to replicate stored data to provide a higher degree of reliability.

What is a Trojan horse?

Computer "infections" are so named because they act on programs and data in a fashion similar to the way viruses act on living tissue.

A digital certificate contains its holder's name,a serial number,expiration dates,and a copy of the certificate holder's public key (used to encrypt messages and digital signatures).

The ____,as it is popularly known,gives law enforcement agencies surveillance and wiretapping rights they did not have before 2001.

CIOs often cite ____ as an effective way to bring down the amount of work their subordinates must do.

Redundancies increase expected downtime.

A ____ is a server that contains a mirrored copy of a production database (a database that is used for business operations),or one with invalid records.

What are honeytokens?

One way to protect against viruses is to use ____,which is readily available on the market from companies that specialize in developing this kind of software,such as Symantec and McAfee.

Some viruses are called ____________________,analogous to the destructive gift given to the ancient Trojans.

____________________ are computer files that serve as the equivalent of ID cards by associating one's identity with one's public key.

____________________ is the process of ensuring that the person who sends a message to or receives a message from you is indeed that person.

The audit trail is the most important tool of the ____________________,the professional whose job it is to find erroneous or fraudulent cases and investigate them.

IS managers encourage users to change their user IDs frequently.