Cybersecurity Flashcards
What institute has instilled a framework for best practices in managing cyber security risks?
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
What are the five functions the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) bases their framework for cybersecurity on?
Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Restore
To “know how you can be attacked” refers to what function in the NIST cybersecurity framework?
Identify
To “put controls in place to prevent the attack” refers to what function in the NIST cybersecurity framework?
Protect
To “put controls in place to know when you’ve been attacked” refers to what function in the NIST cybersecurity framework?
Detect
To “know how you can stop the attack once it’s been detected” refers to what function in the NIST cybersecurity framework?
Respond
To “plan how you will restore normal operations” refers to what function in the NIST cybersecurity framework?
Restore
In the context of cybersecurity, what keyword is used to “refer to the idea that data is there when it’s needed”?
Availability
In the context of cybersecurity, what keyword is used to “refer to the idea that data is accurate and hasn’t been tampered with”?
Integrity
In the context of cybersecurity, what keyword is used to “refer to the idea that data is only accessible by authorized people”?
Confidentiality
In the context of cybersecurity, what keyword is used to “refer to a set of data that has value to the organization”?
Information asset
In the context of cybersecurity, what keyword is used to “refers to services used or goods purchased to prevent a threat actor from exploiting a vulnerability”?
Control
What is one definition of Cybersecurity?
The ability to protect or defend the use of an enterprise’s internet-connected systems and data from an attack.
What form of cyberattack makes things unavailable to authorized users?
Denial of Service (DoS)
What form of cyberattacked tricks users into divulging their credentials to an attacked?
Phishing
