Exam 10: Ethics, Privacy, and Security

A ________ is a technical control that inspects a network's incoming and outgoing traffic and either blocks or permits it according to rules the organization establishes.

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Question 21

Which of the following statements is true of encryption?

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Question 22

The single sign-on is a gateway service that permits users to log in once with a single user ID and password to gain access to multiple software applications.

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Question 23

What is an incidence response plan and what are the steps involved in it?

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Question 24

Trade secrets, software, patents, and copyrighted works comprise intellectual property.

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Question 25

________ refers to an attempt to steal passwords or other sensitive information by persuading the victim to enter the information into a fraudulent website that masquerades as the authentic version.

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Question 26

Which of the following functions does a firewall perform?

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Question 27

Using fake names, nicknames, free email, and public computers ensures that one is perfectly anonymous on the Internet.

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Question 28

Which of the following is a drawback of digital rights management encountered by users today?

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Question 29

Phishing attacks tend to start with an email luring users to click on a link.

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Question 30

What is the purpose of a risk matrix in an organization?

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Question 31

Halcyon, an e-publisher, has recently decided to use an information system that administers the way its customers access its online publications. The system assigns each customer with a unique ID, maintains records of the books purchased by them, encrypts electronic documents for transmission, and includes options to order hard copies of the electronic documents they read online. Which of the following refers to the set of technologies used in this case?

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Question 32

Botnets are computers configured with specific vulnerabilities so they can attract different varieties of malware in the wild, study their properties, and find out who started them.

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Question 33

________ refers to an attack in which computers in a botnet are directed to flood a single website server with rapid-fire page requests, causing it to slow down or crash.

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Question 34

What of the following is a drawback of cloud computing?

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Question 35

________ is a type of intellectual property theft that involves reproducing the words of another and passing them off as one's own original work, without crediting the source.

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Question 36

Laws cover all ethical principles because they are grounded in ethical principles.

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Question 37

Which of the following laws establishes requirements that govern how personally identifiable information on individuals is collected, used, and disseminated by federal agencies?

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Question 38

________ refers to a system of moral principles that human beings use to judge right and wrong and to develop rules of conduct.

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Question 39

Which of the following is an element of privacy?

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A ________ is a technical control that inspects a network's incoming and outgoing traffic and either blocks or permits it according to rules the organization establishes.

Which of the following statements is true of encryption?

The single sign-on is a gateway service that permits users to log in once with a single user ID and password to gain access to multiple software applications.

What is an incidence response plan and what are the steps involved in it?

Trade secrets, software, patents, and copyrighted works comprise intellectual property.

________ refers to an attempt to steal passwords or other sensitive information by persuading the victim to enter the information into a fraudulent website that masquerades as the authentic version.

Which of the following functions does a firewall perform?

Using fake names, nicknames, free email, and public computers ensures that one is perfectly anonymous on the Internet.

Which of the following is a drawback of digital rights management encountered by users today?

Phishing attacks tend to start with an email luring users to click on a link.

What is the purpose of a risk matrix in an organization?

Botnets are computers configured with specific vulnerabilities so they can attract different varieties of malware in the wild, study their properties, and find out who started them.

________ refers to an attack in which computers in a botnet are directed to flood a single website server with rapid-fire page requests, causing it to slow down or crash.

What of the following is a drawback of cloud computing?

________ is a type of intellectual property theft that involves reproducing the words of another and passing them off as one's own original work, without crediting the source.

Laws cover all ethical principles because they are grounded in ethical principles.

Which of the following laws establishes requirements that govern how personally identifiable information on individuals is collected, used, and disseminated by federal agencies?

________ refers to a system of moral principles that human beings use to judge right and wrong and to develop rules of conduct.

Which of the following is an element of privacy?

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