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Question 1

Biometrics

Answer 1

Authenticate identity using an individual’s unique body features such as voice, retina, fingerprint, or signature.

Question 2

Multi-factor identification

Answer 2

Requiring multiple types of ID such as knowledge (password), device (keycard), and body (voiceprint or finger print)

Question 3

Piggybacking

Answer 3

An unauthorized user gains entry into a restricted area by following an authorized user, using the authorized user’s entry credentials to gain access.

Question 4

Phishing

Answer 4

Requests for information delivered via email or text messages (aka smashing).

Question 5

Packet sniffing

Answer 5

Programs that capture packets of data as they move across a computer network.

Question 6

Segregation of Duties

Answer 6

Authorization
Approval
Custody
Record Keeping

Question 7

Example of fraud when duties aren’t segregated

Answer 7

Process fictitious purchase transactions to his own shell companies and cause payments to be made for goods or services that were not received by the company.

Question 8

Primary advantage of online, real-time processing over batch processing

Answer 8

it provides more timely (and therefore more accurate) information for decisions

Question 9

Batch System

Answer 9

Inventory data are only accurate when the records are updated (i.e. each month)

Therefore, decisions about ordering inventory, inventory value, and company profitability are not based on timely info.

Question 10

Online, real-time system information advantages

Answer 10

Information about inventory levels, inventory investment, and cost of goods sold would be available on a continuous basis.

Question 11

Encryption

Answer 11

The process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge.

Question 12

Encryption Technology

Answer 12

Uses a mathematical algorithm to translate cleartext into cipertext (text that has been mathematically scrambled so it’s meaning cannot be determined.

Question 13

Encryption guards against

Answer 13

Risks to privacy, i.e. the protection of data-in-transit against unauthorized access and authentication, i.e. user ID.

Question 14

Symmetric encryption

Answer 14

aka Single-Key encryption or private-key encryption uses a single algorithm to encrypt and decrypt text. The sender uses the encryption algorithm to create a ciphertext and sends the encrypted text to the recipient

Question 15

Asymmetric encryption

Answer 15

aka Public/Private-key encryption and private-key encryption.

Uses two paired encryption algorithms to encrypt and decrypt the text.