BADM 7401 - Exam 1 Terms
Threat - ANS-Any event or circumstance that has the potential to adversely affect operations
and assets
Attack - ANS-An intentional or unintentional act that can damage or otherwise compromise
information and the systems that support it
Vulnerability - ANS-A potential weakness in an asset or its defensive control system(s)
identification - ANS-The access control mechanism whereby unverified entities who seek
access to a resource provide a label by which they are known to the system.
Authorization - ANS-The access control mechanism that represents the matching of an
authenticated entity to a list of information assets and corresponding access levels.
Accountability - ANS-The access control mechanism that ensures all actions on a
system—authorized or unauthorized—can be attributed to an authenticated identity.
Authentication - ANS-the process by which a control establishes whether a user (or system) is
the entity it claims to be
Information Security - ANS-Protection of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of
information assets, whether in storage, processing, or transmission, via the application of policy,
education, training and awareness, and technology.
Policy - ANS-function of information security management that seeks to dictate certain behavior
within the organization through a set of organizational guidelines
Privacy - ANS-In the context of information security, the right of individuals or groups to protect
themselves and their information from unauthorized access, providing confidentiality.
Digital Forensics - ANS-the preservation, identification, extraction, documentation, and
interpretation of digital media for evidentiary and/or root cause analysis
Deontological Ethics - ANS-the study of the rightness or wrongness of intentions and motives as
opposed to the rightness or wrongness of the consequences (also known as duty- or
obligation-based ethics)
Elements of the CIA triad - ANS-Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
Most desirable characteristic for privacy - ANS-Confidentiality
, The function of InfoSec management that encompasses security personnel as well as aspects
of the SETA program - ANS-People
The primary functions of information security management - ANS-Planning, policy, programs,
protection, people, project management
The rationale for the breach law - ANS-They specify a requirement for organizations to notify
affected parties when they have experienced a specified type of loss of information and require
some form of after breach support from the organization.
The two key purposes for digital forensics - ANS-To investigate allegations of digital
malfeasance or to perform root cause analysis
The categories of unethical behavior that organizations and society should seek to eliminate -
ANS-Ignorance, Accident, Intent
How laws and policies deter illegal or unethical activity - ANS-Fear of penalty, probability of
being caught, probability of penalty being administered
Convergence - ANS-The process of integrating the governance of the physical security and
information security efforts
Policy Compliance - ANS-means the employee must agree to the policy
Standard - ANS-detailed statement of what must be done to comply with policy, sometimes
viewed as the rules governing policy compliance
Risk Assessment - ANS-A determination of the extent to which an organization's information
assets are exposed to risk.
Risk Treatment - ANS-the process of selecting and implementing of measures to modify risk
phases of the SecSDLC - ANS-Investigation, Analysis, Design (Logical and Physical),
Implementation, Maintenance
The activities of the Investigation phase of the SecSDLC - ANS-Process, outcomes, goals,
scope, costs and benefits, budget and constraints, development team specifications
The activities of the Analysis phase of the SecSDLC - ANS-Issues with the current
program/system, its environment, requirements of the new system
The activities of the Logical Design phase of the SecSDLC - ANS-§ General program/system
specifications (blueprint)
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