Chapter 4: Ethics And Information Security

Question 1

Ethics

Answer 1

The principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people

Question 2

Information Ethics

Answer 2

Govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies

Question 3

Privacy

Answer 3

The right to be left alone when you want to be, to have control over your own personnel possessions, and not to be observed without your consent

Question 4

Confidentiality

Answer 4

He assurance that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them

Question 5

Ethical Computer Use Policy

Answer 5

Contains general principles to guide computer user behavior

Question 6

Information Privacy Policy

Answer 6

Contains general principles regarding information privacy

Question 7

Acceptable Use Policy

Answer 7

Requires a user to agree to follow it to be provided access to corporate email, information systems, and the Internet

Question 8

Non repudiation

Answer 8

A contractual stipulation to ensure that ebusiness participants do not deny their online actions

Question 9

Internet Use Policy

Answer 9

Contains general principles to guide the proper use of the Internet

Question 10

Email Privacy Policy

Answer 10

Details the extent to which email messages may be read by others

Question 11

Spam

Answer 11

Unsolicited mail

Question 12

Anti Spam policy

Answer 12

Simply states that email users will not send unsolicited emails

Question 13

Social Media policy

Answer 13

Outlines the corporate guidelines or principles governing employee online communications

Question 14

Information Technology Monitoring

Answer 14

Tracks people’s activity

Question 15

Employee Monitoring Policy

Answer 15

Explicitly state how and where the company monitors its employees

Question 16

Information Security

Answer 16

The protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization

Question 17

Downtime

Answer 17

Refers to a period of time when a system is unavailable

Question 18

Hacker

Answer 18

Experts in technology who use their knowledge to break into computers and computer networks, either for profit or just motivated by the challenge

Question 19

Virus

Answer 19

Software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage

Question 20

Identity Theft

Answer 20

The forging of someone’s identity for the purpose of fraud

Question 21

Phishing

Answer 21

A technique to gain personal information for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fraudulent email

Question 22

Pharming

Answer 22

Reroutes requests for legitimate websites to false websites

Question 23

Authentication

Answer 23

A method for confirming users identities

Question 24

Authorization

Answer 24

The process of giving someone permission to do or have something

Question 25

Tokens

Answer 25

Small electronic devices that change user passwords automatically

Question 26

Smart Card

Answer 26

A device that is around the same size as a credit card, containing embedded technologies that can store information and small amounts of software to perform some limited processing

Question 27

Biometrics

Answer 27

The identification of a user based on a physical characteristic such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice,, or handwriting

Question 28

Content Filtering

Answer 28

Prevents emails from containing sensitive information from transmitting and stops spam and viruses from spreading

Question 29

Firewall

Answer 29

Hardware and/or software that guards a private network by analyzing the information leaving and entering the network

Question 30

Intrusion Detection Software

Answer 30

Features full time monitoring tools that search for patterns in network traffic to identify intruders