Confidentiality

Question 1

What is Snooping? How is it countered?

Answer 1

• Unauthorised users are actively looking for sensitive information within a workplace.
• Snooping is countered by having clean desk policy, where workers are to have a clean desk at all times with no important documents laying about.

Question 2

What is Dumpster Diving? How can risks be mitigated?

Answer 2

• Individuals are looking for sensitive information in trash or dumpster.
• Shredding documents or other sensitivie information is to be in place mitigate risks.

Question 3

What is Eavesdropping? How can it be mitigated?

Answer 3

• Individuals are listening in on conversations of sensitive nature.
• To protect against eavesdropping, enforcing rules having sensitive conversations within conference rooms or private offices.

Question 4

What is Social Engineering? How to best prevent this type of attack?

Answer 4

• Social Engineering is the use of psychological tactics to trick users into providing sensitive information or access to a system.
• Educating users on social engineering tactics can prevent the leak of confidential information or acess to a system.

Question 5

What is Wiretapping? How to protect against Wiretapping?

Answer 5

• Hackers have acquired access to a network and monitoring data sent electronically.
• Best practices to avoid wiretapping is to use encryption standards when transmitting data.