Chapter 4: Ethics + information Security

Question 1

Information ethics

Answer 1

Govern the ethical and moral issues arising from the development and use of information technologies as well as the creation, collection, duplication, distribution, and processing of information itself

Question 2

Privacy

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Confidentiality

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Business issues related to information ethics

Answer 4

Intellectual property
Copyright
Pirated software
Counterfeit software

Question 5

Tools to prevent information misuse

Answer 5

Information management
Information governance
Information compliance
eDiscovery

Question 6

Ethical computer use policy

Answer 6

Contains general principles to guide computer user behavior
- ensures all users are informed of the rules and by agreeing to use the system on that basis, consent to abide by the rules

Question 7

Email privacy policy

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Anti-spam policy

Answer 8

Simply states that email users will not send unsolicited emails or spam

Question 9

Social media policy

Answer 9

Outlines the corporate guidelines or principles governing employee online communications

Question 10

Workplace monitoring policy

Answer 10

Information technology monitoring

Employee monitoring policy

Question 11

Information technology monitoring

Answer 11

Tracks peoples activities by such measures as number of keystrokes, error rate, and number of transactions processed

Question 12

Employee monitoring policy

Answer 12

Explicitly state how, when, and where the company monitors it’s employees

Question 13

Organizational information is

Answer 13

Intellectual capital

Question 14

Information security

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Downtime

Answer 15

Refers to a period of time when a system is unavailable

Question 16

Hacker

Answer 16

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

• black hat hacker
• cracker
• cyberterrorist
• hactivist
• script kiddies or script bunnies
• white hat hacker

Question 17

Virus

Answer 17

Software written with malicious intent to cause annoyance or damage

Question 18

Biggest issue surrounding information security is

Answer 18

Not technical but people issue.

• insiders
• social engineers
• dumpster diving

Question 19

First line of defense

Answer 19

People

Question 20

Second line of defense

Answer 20

Technology

Question 21

Identity theft

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Phishing

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Pharming

Answer 23

Re routes requests for legitimate websites to false websites

Question 24

Authentication

Answer 24

A method for confirming users identities

Question 25

Authorization

Answer 25

The process of giving someone permission to do or have something

Question 26

Content filtering

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Encryption

Answer 27

Scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt

Question 28

Firewall

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Data prevention and resistance

Answer 29

Content filtering
Encryption
Firewall

Question 30

Intrusion detection software

Answer 30

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

Question 31

Ethics

Answer 31

The principle and standards that guide our behavior towards other people