Lecture 1

Question 1

What is risk?

Answer 1

The potential that a threat will exploit a vulenrability of an asset or group of assets and thereby cause harm to the organisation

Question 2

Weakness in internal controls can lead to:

Answer 2

1. destructuion of an asset
2. theft of an asset
3. corruption of information or the information systems
4. disruption of the information asset

Question 3

What is information security?

Answer 3

Security i a state of being free from doubt or danger.
Information security involves protection oof information assets and information sysetsm from damage, misuse or attack, resulting in information being stable reliable and free from failure

Question 4

Confidentiality

Answer 4

THe restriction of access to certain types of information

Question 5

Integrity

Answer 5

the trust worthiness of the information or the support IT resources. it covers both the content of the information and the origin of the information

Question 6

Availability

Answer 6

Of the information and the ability to use the information in supporting IT resources as desired

Question 7

Data breach

Answer 7

A security incident, in which sensitive, protective or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by a person/s unauthorized to do so