1.2 Attacking and Defending

Question 1

threat assessment

Answer 1

structured process of identifying the threats posed to a group or system

Question 2

risk mitigation

Answer 2

the systematic reduction of the impact and likely occurrence of a negative event

Question 3

Why mitigation and not eradication?

Answer 3

we cannot eradicate all risks. Cybersec is ever evolving, new threats emerge every day.
-business needs and budgetary constraints limit the ability to implement cybersecurity best practices.

Question 4

attack

Answer 4

any kind of malicious activity that attempts to collect, disrupt, deny, degrade , or destroy information system resources of the information itself

Question 5

physical machines

Answer 5

desktop or laptop; also known as bare metal machines; physical computers that have hardware components
-can run multiple virtual machines

Question 6

virtual machine

Answer 6

an application that acts like a completely different physical machine

Question 7

advantages of a virtual machine

Answer 7

easy and inexpensive (often free) to set up and run
can be easily distributed

Question 8

advantage of a physical machine

Answer 8

typically more efficient b/c they access the hardware components directly

Question 9

Ubuntu VM

Answer 9

a type of virtual machine

Question 10

virtual box

Answer 10

a virtualization tool used to run various various operating systems on our local machines

Question 11

Vagrant

Answer 11

tool used to build and set up virtual machines