General Cybersecurity Vocabulary

Question 1

1.

What is a Packet Sniffer?

Answer 1

Packet sniffers are applications or utilities that read data packets traversing the network within the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) layer.

Question 2

What’s a DOS attack?

Answer 2

Denial of service attack.
An attack that targets a network or server and floods it with network traffic.

Question 3

What is a DNS server and what does it do?

Answer 3

Turns domain names into IP addresses, which allow browsers to get to websites and other internet resources

Question 4

What are the 3 parts of a data packet and what do they do?

Answer 4

Header - Body - Footer

Header - MAC and IP adress
Body - Data
Footer - Inform the recieving device that it has reached the end of the packet

Question 5

What would you call the process of examining network logs to identify events of interest?

Answer 5

Network Log Analysis

Question 6

What is an application that collects and analyzes log data to monitor critical activites in an organization?

Answer 6

A SIEM Tool

( Security Information and Event Management Tool )

Question 7

What do you call a simulated attack that helps identify vulnerabilities in systems, networks, websites, applications, and processes?

Answer 7

Penetration Testing