Cybersecurity Fundamentals
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Cybersecurity Fundamentals provides a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practices that protect digital systems and information from security threats. The course covers key concepts such as threat landscapes, risk management, network security, cryptography, authentication, and access control. Students will also learn about common cyber attacks, defensive measures, ethical and legal considerations, and best practices for safeguarding personal and organizational data. Through real-world case studies and practical exercises, learners will develop a foundational understanding essential to pursuing further study or a career in cybersecurity.
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Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery 1st Edition by Michael E. Whitman
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Chapter 1: Contingency Planning Within Information Security
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Q1) Includes trade secrets,copyrights,trademarks,and patents.
A)Threat agent
B)Intellectual property
C)Hacker
D)Computer viruses
E)Trojan
F)Risk management
G)Likelihood
H)Residual risk
I)Standards
Answer: B
Q2) What is the difference between a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan?
Answer: A disaster recovery (DR)plan deals with the preparation for and recovery from a disaster,whether natural or man-made.A business continuity (BC)plan is a document that expresses how an organization ensures that critical business functions continue at an alternate location while the organization recovers its ability to function at the primary site if a catastrophic incident or disaster occurs.
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Chapter 2: Planning for Organizational Readiness
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Q1) A(n)____ provides the strategic vision and the linkage to the power structure of the organization,but someone has to manage the project.
A)incident manager
B)champion
C)crisis manager
D)project manager
Answer: B
Q2) The ____ is an investigation and assessment of the impact that various attacks can have on the organization.
A)business impact analysis
B)threat of attack analysis
C)forensic analysis
D)cross-training analysis
Answer: A
Q3) Effective contingency planning begins with effective policy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Incidence Response: Preparation, Organization, and Prevention
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Q1) Which of the following is a security quality management service?
A)Announcements
B)Risk analysis
C)Incident handling
D)Alerts and warnings
Answer: B
Q2) Important because cooperation and coordination are necessary for successful incident response.
A)Distributed incident response teams
B)Teamwork skills
C)Education and awareness
D)IR plan
E)After-action review
F)Full-interruption testing
G)Catalyst
H)Blackhole
I)Semtex
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Incident Response: Detection and Decision Making
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Q1) Looks for indications of ongoing or successful attacks and resides on a computer or appliance connected to that network segment.
A)Intrusion detection system
B)HIDS
C)Signature-based IDS
D)Enticement
E)Entrapment
F)Alarm clustering
G)NIDS
H)Nmap
I)Scanning utility
Q2) The term ____________________ refers to a consolidation of almost identical alarms into a single higher-level alarm.
Q3) A(n)____________________ monitors traffic on a segment of an organization's network.
Q4) The purpose of a NIDS is to look for patterns within network traffic that indicate an intrusion event is underway or about to begin.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Incidence Response: Reaction, Recovery, and Maintenance
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Q1) The ____ handles computer crimes that are categorized as felonies.
A)FBI
B)U.S.Secret Service
C)U.S.Treasury Department
D)CIA
Q2) If properly structured and conducted,the ____ can have a positive effect on the organization's IR capacity and employee confidence in responding to incidents.
A)black bag operation
B)system backup
C)system maintenance
D)AAR
Q3) An effective ____ plan guides an organization's response when an incident occurs,enables the prompt recovery of normal operations,and assists in the smooth transition to disaster recovery or business continuity plans when needed.
A)sequential roster
B)hierarchical
C)Incident Response
D)war game
Q4) List five incident containment strategies.
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Chapter 6: Contingency Strategies for Business
Resumption Planning
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Q1) RAID level 0 improves the risk situation when using disk drives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Towers of Hanoi rotation method?
Q3) The bulk transfer of data in batches to an off-site facility is called ____________________.
Q4) Designed to complete the backup in the shortest amount of elapsed time.
A)RAID level 2
B)Remote journaling
C)NAS
D)Cold site
E)Mutual agreement
F)Service agreement
G)BC plan
H)Incremental backup
I)Differential backup
Q5) What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Grandfather-Father-Son rotation method?
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Chapter 7: Disaster Recovery: Preparation and Implementation
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Q1) When developing the LAN contingency plan,the contingency planning coordinator should identify ____ that affect critical systems or processes outlined in the BIA.
A)events
B)filters
C)single points of failure
D)servers
Q2) This group works with the remainder of the organization to assist in the recovery of nontechnology functions.
A)Disaster management team
B)Business interface team
C)Actions after
D)Network recovery team.
E)Storage recovery team.
F)Data management team
G)Vendor contact team.
H)Logistics team.
I)Business interface team.
Q3) List five contingency strategies that should be considered for LANs.
Q4) The ________________________________________ assembles a disaster recovery team.
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Chapter 8: Disaster Recovery: Operation and Maintenance
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Q1) ____ means making an organization ready for possible contingencies that escalate to disaster.
A)Preparation
B)Mitigation of impact
C)War gaming
D)Crisis management
Q2) Training focuses on the particular roles each individual is expected to execute during an actual disaster.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A(n)____ occurs when a situation results in service disruptions for weeks or months,requiring a government to declare a state of emergency.
A)after-action review
B)worst-case scenario
C)notification
D)trigger
Q4) What are the main purposes of the response phase?
Q5) What is the purpose of the disaster management team?
Q6) What are some of the key points that the CP team must build into the DR plan?
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Chapter 9: Business Continuity Preparation and Implementation
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Q1) The term ____________________ is used in the military and government sectors to represent the process of moving out of temporary facilities and returning them to the owners or managers.
Q2) The ____ section of the business continuity policy identifies the organizational units and groups of employees to which the policy applies.
A)scope
B)training requirements
C)roles and responsibilities
D)special considerations
Q3) Unlike the IR plan and the DR plan,testing the BC plan is an ongoing activity,with each scenario tested at least semiannually and at least at a walk-through level.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____ involves the transfer of live transactions to an off-site facility.
A)Remote journaling
B)Database shadowing
C)Six-tape rotation
D)Electronic vaulting
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Chapter 10: Business Continuity Operations and Maintenance
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Q1) Good ____ can safeguard losses that occur while operating in the suboptimum conditions of the contingency deployment when errors or faults could cause additional disruptions and also because the organization needs to relocate to the primary site.
A)databases
B)technology
C)backup practices
D)forensic studies
Q2) Inevitably pays off in efficiency of the operation once the business continuity plan is implemented.
A)Trigger point
B)Preparation undertaken by an organization
C)Network recovery team
D)Security
E)Insurance
F)BC plan
G)BC review
H)Information systems security control
I)Plan
Q3) What is the difference between the data management team and logistics team?
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Chapter 11: Crisis Management and Human Factors
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Q1) The ____ is the ranking executive on-site when the crisis or emergency arises and is authorized to initiate the CM plan.
A)emergency service coordinator
B)communications coordinator
C)executive-in-charge
D)human resource coordinator
Q2) ____________________ is the process that enables an organization to cope with any loss of personnel with a minimum degree of disruption to the functionality of the organization.
Q3) What is the purpose of a crisis management identification card?
Q4) ____ typically refers to the public relations aspect of crisis management.
A)Crisis communications
B)Humanitarian assistance
C)Emergency response
D)Cross-training
Q5) In a(n)______________________________ employees are given a general scenario,a sequence of several unfolding events or "injections" and asked to describe how they would respond.
Q6) What are some of the expenses that may arise during or after a crisis?
Q7) List four typical causes of a crisis.
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