Cyber Hygiene Flashcards
practices and steps that maintain system health and improve online security
secure network user habits
Cyber Hygiene
use firewalls
update virus definitions
running security scans
select and maintain passwords update software
back up data
Good Network user Habits
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.
Configuration management
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.
Configuration management
can lead to poor performance,
inconsistencies, or noncompliance.
Misconfigurations
Undocumented changes add to
instability and downtime
its necessary to maintain the to revert the system if necessary
baseline
even authorized modifications can
add, remove or completely change functionality of a system
Baseline can give solid metrics to predict what might happen in the future depending on the?
starting points and time span being analyzed
is the measure of a systems current state of security readiness
Baseline
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
Disaster recovery
The term site reliability refers to how often your is up
Service is up
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.
Easier scaling
should be backed up regularly
system data
Data may be backed up on?
magnetic disks, magnetic tap, or optical disks.