Terminology Flashcards
What is ALE?
Annual loss expectancy
What is ARO?
Annualized rate of occurence
What is BIA?
Business impact analysis - a study of the possible impact
What is exposure factor (EP)?
Potential percentage of loss to an asset if a threat is realized.
What is interconnection security agreement (ISA)?
An agreement established between the organizations that own and operate connected IT systems to document the technical requirements of the interconnection.
What is maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)?
The maximum period of time that a business process can be down
What is mean time between failures (MTBF)?
Anticipated lifetime of a system or component.
What is mean time to failure (MTTF)?
Average of how long it takes a system or component to fail
What is RAID? (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
A configuration of multiple hard disks used to provide fault tolerance.
Risk acceptance
A risk in which the best approach is simply to accept the consequences.
Risk avoidance
Involves identifying a risk and making the decision not
to engage any longer in the actions associated with that risk
Risk Transference
Share some of the burden of the risk with someone else, such as an insurance company
service-level agreement (SLA)
An agreement that specifies performance requirements for a vendor
single point of failure (SPOF)
single weakness that is capable of bringing an entire system down
Likelihood
score representing the possibility of threat initiation
