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Keywords from Luke Flashcards

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CIA Triad

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A security model focusing on Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.

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Ethical Hacker

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An individual who exploits systems legally and ethically to find vulnerabilities.

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Cyber Security Researcher

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Professionals studying digital threats and security measures.

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Controls

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Security measures to mitigate risk.

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Internetworked Information Systems

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Integrated systems that share data and resources.

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TLA

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Three-Letter Acronym, typically referring to security protocols.

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Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)

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Long-term targeted cyber attacks.

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5 Eyes

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An intelligence alliance comprising five Anglophone countries.

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Google Dork

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A search string for finding specific data using Google.

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Operation Aurora

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Google’s cybersecurity incident in 2009.

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IR - Incident Responder

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A professional dealing with cybersecurity incidents.

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Playbook

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A strategic outline for cybersecurity operations.

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ACSC & JCSC

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Australian Cyber Security Centre and Joint Cyber Security Centres respectively.

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Zero Trust

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Security model that does not inherently trust any entity.

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Control

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Mechanisms that enforce policy within systems.

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Attribution

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Identifying the origin of a cyberattack.

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Sec Ops

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Security Operations, often involved in maintaining day-to-day security.

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Signal Intelligence (SigInt)

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Collection and analysis of electronic signals and communications by other nations.

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0-day

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A software vulnerability that is unknown to those who should be interested in its mitigation.

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C2 Servers (C & C)

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Command and Control servers used by attackers to maintain communications with compromised systems.

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Hack Back

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Act of hacking against an entity that has attacked you first.

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Systems of National Significance

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Important infrastructures whose compromise can affect national security.

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Ransomware

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Malware that encrypts files and demands payment for their release.

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Exfiltrate Data

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Unauthorized copying, transfer or retrieval of data.

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Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability (CIA Triad):

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Three fundamental principles of information security.

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DOS/DDOS Attacks

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Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service attacks to make a machine or network resource unavailable.

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Elastic Computing

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The ability to acquire computing resources on demand and to scale.

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TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS

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Protocols for transmitting data over the Internet.

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Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

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Information that can be used to identify an individual.

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NZISM

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New Zealand Information Security Manual.

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Hikvision / EUFY / Wyze

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Brands associated with security surveillance technologies.

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Control

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Any measure used to help implement a security measure.

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Scope

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The extent to which cybersecurity measures are applied.

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Cyber Extortion:

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The act of demanding money by threatening to expose confidential information.

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CellerBrite

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A data extraction solution commonly used by law enforcement.

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Patch Tuesday

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The day Microsoft releases security patches.

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Hide My Email

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A feature that helps in protecting email privacy.

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Confidentiality, Identification, Authentication, Authorization, and Accountability (IAAA)

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Components essential for secure transactions.

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User/Service Accounts

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Accounts that have specific roles and privileges.

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Insider Threat

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Risks posed by individuals within the organization.

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Defence in Depth

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Layered security measures

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Software Vulnerabilities and Misconfigurations

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Weaknesses and incorrect settings in software.

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AWS S3 Buckets

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Cloud storage resources on Amazon Web Services.

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API

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Application Programming Interface for software interactions.

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DLP

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Data Loss Prevention, techniques to prevent unauthorized data access.

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Deprecated

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Marked for obsolescence.

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Public/Private Keys, Plaintext, Ciphertext, Cipher, Brute Force

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Elements and techniques in cryptography.

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Confusing, Diffusion

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Methods to complicate deciphering.

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Security Through Obscurity, Information Wants to be Free

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Philosophical stances in cybersecurity.

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Glasswire

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A network monitoring tool.

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Random Numbers, Salts

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Elements for cryptographic randomness

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Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption

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Two main categories of encryption based on key usage.

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Integer

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A type of data that represents whole numbers.

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ECC

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography, a type of public-key cryptography.

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Polymorphic Viruses

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Viruses that can alter their code to evade traditional security measures.

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Hugging Face

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An AI research organization specializing in natural language processing

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Kevin Mitnick

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A renowned hacker-turned-security consultant.

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KnowB4

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A platform for security awareness training.

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Script Kiddie

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A pejorative term for individuals with limited understanding who use pre-written hacking tools.

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Hashing

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The process of converting data into a fixed-size string of characters.

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MD5 Hashing

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An older, commonly used hashing algorithm.

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Avalanche Effect

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A desirable property of cryptographic algorithms where a small change in input significantly changes the output.

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SHA-2

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A family of cryptographic hash functions.

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Base64

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An encoding scheme that converts binary data to ASCII string format.

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Algorithm

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A procedure for solving computational problems.

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AES, DES, IDEA, Blowfish, RC4, RC5, RC6

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Types of encryption algorithms.

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Data at rest/in use

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States of data storage during lifecycle.

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Man in the Middle

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A form of eavesdropping attack.

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PCI DSS

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Security standards for all organizations that handle credit card information.

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NIST SP-800-39

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A comprehensive guide for federal agencies to manage information security risk.

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