Cyber Hygiene Flashcards

1
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practices and steps that maintain system health and improve online security
secure network user habits

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Cyber Hygiene

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2
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use firewalls
update virus definitions
running security scans
select and maintain passwords update software
back up data

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Good Network user Habits

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3
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is a process for
maintaining computer systems, servers, and software
in a desired, consistent state. It’s a way to make sure
that a system continues to perform as expected while
changes are made over time.

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Configuration management

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4
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is the discipline of
ensuring all current and future company software,
hardware, and modifications to those assets are
known and always tracked.
* This prevents small or large network changes from
going undocumented.

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Configuration management

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5
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can lead to poor performance,
inconsistencies, or noncompliance.

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Misconfigurations

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6
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Undocumented changes add to

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instability and downtime

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7
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its necessary to maintain the to revert the system if necessary

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baseline

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8
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even authorized modifications can

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add, remove or completely change functionality of a system

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9
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Baseline can give solid metrics to predict what might happen in the future depending on the?

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starting points and time span being analyzed

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10
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is the measure of a systems current state of security readiness

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Baseline

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11
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Configuration management ensures that our assets are easily recoverable the applies to rollbacks if a bad code is pushed out. we can go back to the state of our software before the change

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Disaster recovery

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12
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The term site reliability refers to how often your is up

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Service is up

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13
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what benefit is
provisioning is the act of adding mire resources to our running application.
configuration management ensures that we know what a good state of our service is.
the goal is really to make provisioning a non event.

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Easier scaling

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14
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should be backed up regularly

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system data

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15
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Data may be backed up on?

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magnetic disks, magnetic tap, or optical disks.

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16
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it is good business practice to store backed up data

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offsite

17
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the goal of all data backup jobs is to ensure lost data?

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can be recovered
quickly, efficiently and as completely as possible

18
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is a way to manage your disk drives so that you can create one logical drive from two or more physical drives.

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RAID

19
Q

another name for what you put your backed up data on

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Media

20
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this backs up all the selected files and folders
can be time consuming if there is a lot of data

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full or normal backup

21
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backs up only additions and alterations since the most recent full backup
archive flag is not reset until full backup

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Differential backup

22
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backs up only additions and alterations since the most recent incremental backup
archive flag is reset after each incremental backup
restoring data would require a full backup and each incremental backup chronologically

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Incremental Backup

23
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backs up all selected files and folders that changed during the day.

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daily backup

24
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team should be composed of core members from all departments with representation from the top management

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Constitute a disaster recovery team

25
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the team should be responsible for overseeing the entire development, implementation, and recovery operations and the plan

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constitute a disaster recovery team

26
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includes possible natural and man made disasters
considers the impact and aftermath to determine crucial resource security

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perform risk assessment

27
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all departments categorize their own documentation, operations, resources etc as Essential, important or not essential.

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prioritize processes and operations

28
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gather and document inventory forms, policies, equipment, communications, telephone numbers, and other valuable company documents

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data collection

29
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the plan should have detailed step by step instructions of what to do and who to contact during a disaster

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creating the disaster recovery plan

30
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Regular efficiency tests provide a platform wherein
analysis can be done as to what changes are required and
make appropriate adjustments to the plan.

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Testing the plan

31
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what types of test does the disaster recovery Testing the plan test for?

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checklist test
simulation test
parallel tests,
full interruption tests