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Acronyms "B & C" Flashcards

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  • BASH (Bourne Again Shell)
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  • Powerful UNIX shell and command language
    • Used to issue commands that get executed, which can also be turned into shell scripts
    • Often used for automation
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  • BCP (Business Continuity Planning)
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  • Plan used to create processes and systems of both prevention and recovery to deal with threats that a company faces
    • This plan outlines how a business can continue delivering products and services if crap hits the fan
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  • BIA (Business Impact Analysis)
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  • Used to predict the consequences a business would face if there were to be a disruption
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  • BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
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  • The postal service of the Internet

- BGP finds the best route for data to travel to reach its destination

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  • BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
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  • Firmware that performs hardware initialization when systems are booting up, and to provide runtime services for the OS and programs
    • First software to run when you power on a device
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  • BPA (Business Partnership Agreement)
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  • Defines a contract between two or more parties as to how a business should run
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  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
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  • When employees use personal devices to connect to their organization’s networks and access work-related systems
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  • CA (Certificate Authority)
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  • An organization that validates the identities of entities through cryptographic keys by issuing digital certificates
    • If you check the padlock on this website (next to the domain name), you’ll see that it says “Connection is secure” and then you can click on “Certificate is valid”
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  • CAC (Common Access Card)
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  • Smart card for active-duty personnel
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  • CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart)
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  • These are the “problems/puzzles” you have to solve from time to time to make sure that you are not a robot
    • Typically used for forms to defend against bots
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  • CAR (Corrective Action Report)
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  • Lists defects that need to be rectified
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  • CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker)
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  • Acts as an intermediary between the cloud and on-premises
    • Monitors all activity
    • Enforces security policies
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  • CBC (Cipher Block Chaining)
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  • a mode of operation for a block cipher – one in which a sequence of bits are encrypted as a single unit, or block, with a cipher key applied to the entire block.
  • uses what is initialization vector (IV)
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  • CBT (Computer-based Training)
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computer training

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  • CCMP (Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol)
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  • Encryption protocol designed for Wireless LAN products
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  • CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television)
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  • a television system in which the video signals are transmitted from one or more cameras by cable to a restricted set of monitors.
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  • CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team)
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a group of experts who respond to cybersecurity incidents

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  • CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
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  • Authenticates a user or network host to an authenticating entity
    • Provides protection against replay attacks
    • Requires that both the client and server know the plaintext of the secret, but it’s never sent over the network
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  • CIO (Chief Information Officer)
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  • CIO (Chief Information Officer)
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  • CIRT (Computer Incident Response Team)
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  • CIRT (Computer Incident Response Team)
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  • CIS (Center for Internet Security)
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  • CIS (Center for Internet Security)
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  • CMS (Content Management System)
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  • ie: something like WordPress
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  • COOP (Continuity of Operation Planning)
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a federal initiative to plan to address how critical operations will continue under a broad range of circumstances.
COOP planning fosters recovery and survival in and after emergency situations.

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  • COPE (Corporate Owned Personal Enabled)
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  • Organization provides its employees with mobile computing devices
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  • CP (Contingency Planning)
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  • CP (Contingency Planning)
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  • CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Check)
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  • Used to detect accidental changes in digital networks and storage devices
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  • CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
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  • List of digital certificates that have been revoked by the issuing certificate authority (CA)
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  • CSO (Chief Security Officer)
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  • CSO (Chief Security Officer)
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  • CSP (Cloud Service Provider)
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Entity that provides infrastructure for cloud services. AWS, GCP, Azure

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  • CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
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  • Contains information that the Certificate Authority (CA) will use to create your certificate
    • Contains the public key for which the certificate should be issued, and other identifying information
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  • CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
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  • Unauthorized actions are performed on behalf of a legitimate user
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  • CSU (Channel Service Unit)
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  • a digital communication device that is used to connect a digital line to a digital device.
  • can be used to link local area networks (LANs) into a wide area network (WAN) using telecommunications carrier services
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  • CTM (Counter-Mode)
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  • Converts a block cipher into a stream cipher

- Combines an IV with a counter and uses the result to encrypt each plaintext block

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  • CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
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  • CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
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  • CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)
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  • CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures)

- Common cyber security threats and how they occur

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  • CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System)
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  • CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System)

- The threat level scoring system for CVE’s

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  • CYOD (Choose Your Own Device)
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  • Employee can choose a company-assigned device from a limited number of options

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