Accounting Flashcards
What are security measures that ensure all user activities are properly tracked and recorded?
Accounting
What 3 things does accounting achieve?
Transparency, security, accountability (TSA)
What 5 things does accounting ensures and provide?
Audit trails, regulatory compliance, forensic analysis, resources optimization, user accountability
What provides chronological record of all user activities that can be used to traces changes, unauthorized access, or anomalies back to a specific user or point in time?
Audit Trail
What maintains a record of all users activities?
Activity Log
What uses detailed accounting and event logs that help cybersecurity experts understand what happened, how it happened, and how to prevent an incident from occurring again?
Forensic Analysis
Organizations can optimize system performance and minimize costs by tracking resources utilization and allocation decisions. What do we call this?
Resource Optimization
User actions are logged, deterring potential misuse and promoting adherence to the organization’s policies. This is called:
User Accountability
What systems are used for accounting?
Syslog servers, network analysis tools, and SIEMs
What are aggregate logs from various network devices and systems? Admin’s can analyze logs to detect patterns or anomalies in an org’s system.
Syslog Servers
What is used to capture and analyze network traffic to gain detailed insights into all the data moving within a network?
Network analysis tools (Wireshark)
What is a system that provides real-time analysis of security alerts generated by various hardware and software infrastructure in an organization?
SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) Systems
