Terms Flashcards
CIA Stands for what?
CAI stands for Confidentiality Integrity Availability.
Confidentiality definition:
Be read only by the right people.
Integrity definition:
Only be changed by authorised processes or persons.
Availability definition:
Be available and useable whenever and wherever required.
Information assets refers to what?
Information assets refers to any sensitive or valuable data concerned.
Authentication definition:
Authentication is the process of checking if the user has priority or if the user has a certain identity. It is used to secure integrity and confidentiality.
Non-repudiation definition:
Ensuring that the user cannot deny an action on any network, app, or site. It does this by logging the action, using the users authentication method. This could be username, IP address, bank account name, etc.
Malware definition:
Malware is a collective term denoting all software attempting to harm a computer. It is a contraction of “malicious software”.
Phishing definition:
Emailing people and pretending to be IT security or other “trustworthy” positions. It is also a form of social engineering.
What is it called when hackers target a very specific audience or recipient through spam email software transfer?
This is called “spear phishing”.
Pastejacking definition:
Using Javascript to inject code or malware into the clipboard when “copy” is used.
SMTP stands for what?
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
TCP stands for what?
TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol
IP stands for what?
IP stands for Internet Protocol.
HTTP stands for what?
HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol [with] SSL
SSL stands for what?
Secure Socket Layer
UDP stands for what?
User Datagram Protocol. It allows fast datagram transfer.
What is a Datagram?
A piece of digital information, (also known as a packet), of a fixed size. These are what is passed around the internet.
What is a DNS and what does it do?
DNS stands for Domain Name Server. Domain name servers convert addresses (domain names) into IP addresses.
World Wide Web means what?
The World Wide Web is the part of the Internet which your computer can understands as HTTP messages and convert into a viewable page. It works by HTML (see terms) documents linked together.
What does HTML stand for?
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is used to create web pages interpretable by a browser.
SSID stands for what?
SSID stands for Service Set Identifier. This is the name of a WLAN.
What does LAN stand for?
LAN stands for Local Area Network. WLAN stands for Wireless Local Area Network.
Cryptography meaning:
A special area of mathematics concerned with using algorithms to secure information.
