Chapter 16 Flashcards
What provides customers with a computing platform, including hardware, operating systems, and a runtime environment?
PaaS
What model provide basic computing resources such as servers, storage, and networking resources.
IaaS
What ensures that systems are configured similarly and the configurations of systems are known and documented?
Configuration Management
What ensures that systems are deployed with a common baseline or starting point, and imaging is a common baselining method?
Baselining
What helps reduce outages or weakened security from unauthorized changes?
Change Management
What uses a labeling or numbering system to track changes in updated versions of software?
Versioning
What ensures that systems are kept up to date with current patches?
Patch Management
What verify the deployment of approved patches to systems?
System Audits
What can detect known security vulnerabilities and weaknesses such as the absence of patches or weak passwords?
Vulnerability Scanners
What can generate reports that indicate the technical vulnerabilities of a system and are an effective check for a patch management program?
Vulnerability Scanners
What principle imposes the requirement to grant users access only to data or resources they need to perform assigned work tasks?
Need to Know
What policy creates a checks-and-balances system where two or more users verify each other’s actions and must work in concert to accomplish necessary work tasks.
Separation of duties
What requires the approval of two individuals for critical tasks?
Two person control
What combines the concepts of separation of duties and two-person control into a single solution.
Split Knowledge
What helps make an environment less dependent on any single individual?
Cross Training
