Prevention of Security Threats Flashcards
What is Anti-virus and anti-spyware?
Software that identifies and destroys malicious programs
What is shredding?
Cutting up documents or optical discs to make it impossible to reconstruct
What are bio metric readers?
Determine a persons identity using fingerprints or eye
scans
What is RFID?
radio or electromagnetic waves to identify and track individuals or items.
What are tokens?
Small hardware devices to allow access to a network
What are privacy screens?
Screens that appear dark from the side
What is Packet filtering firewall?
Analyses packets of information and blocks any unwanted packets.
What is Proxy firewall?
receives and checks data before its sent to the computer
What is Inspection firewall?
Compares key features of the data requested against incoming data
What is encryption?
Data is encoded and only be understood by using the key to decode it.
What is permission?
Rules that determine what users can see and do on the network.
