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WGU D430 fundamentals of
information security
exam(246 questions and
answers)

Information security - answer protecting data,
software, and hardware secure against
unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption,
modification, or destruction.


Compliance - answer The requirements that are set
forth by laws and industry regulations.


IE: HIPPA/ HITECH- healthcare, PCI/DSS- payment
card industry, FISMA- federal government agencies


DAD Triad - answer Disclosure, alteration, and
denial


CIA Triad - answer The core model of all
information security concepts. Confidential,
integrity and availability

,Confidential - answer Ability to protect our data
from those who are not authorized to view it.


What ways can confidentiality be compromised? -
answer - lose a personal laptop with data
- Person can view your password you are entering
in
- Send an email attachment to the wrong person.
- Attacker can penetrate your systems....etc.


integrity - answer Keeping data unaltered by
accidental or malicious intent


How to maintain integrity? - answer Prevent
unauthorized changes to the data and the ability to
reverse unwanted authorized changes.


Via system/file permissions or Undo/Roll back
undesirable changes.


Availability - answer The ability to access data
when needed


Ways Availability can be compromised - answer -
Power loss

,- Application issues
- Network attacks
- System compromised (DoS)


Denial of Service (DoS) - answer Security problem
in which users are not able to access an
information system; can be caused by human
errors, natural disaster, or malicious activity.


Parkerian hexad model - answer A model that adds
three more principles to the CIA triad:


Possession/Control
Utility
Authenticity


Possession/ control - answer Refers to the physical
disposition of the media on which the data is
stored; This allows you to discuss loss of data via
its physical medium.


Principle of Possession example - answer Lost
package (encrypted USB's and unencrypted USB's)

, possession is an issue because the tapes are
physically lost.


(Unencrypted is compromised via confidentiality
and possession; encrypted is compromised only via
possession).


Principle of Authenticity - answer Allows you to say
whether you've attributed the data in question to
the proper owner/creator.


Ways authenticity can be compromised - answer
Sending an email but altering the message to look
like it came from someone else, than the original
one that was sent.


Utility - answer How useful the data is to you.


Ex. Unencrypted (a lot of utility) Encrypted (little
utility).


Security Attacks - answer Broken down from the
type of attack, risk the attack represents, and
controls you might use to mitigate it.


Types of attacks - answer 1- interception

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