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Security
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- 1Data Securitya
- 2Malicious Damage- A disgruntled employee wanting to hurt the company,
- Industrial espionage/malware/hackers. - 3GenerationsA form of backing up files, in which multiple copies of files are made across weeks and/or months.
- 4ArchivingProcess of disabling read/write access to a file after it is done being used to prevent damage being done to it.
- 5EncryptionA way of modifying a message in order to make it unreadable without a proper way to decrypt the message.
- 6Statistical AttackA way of breaking encryption without knowing precisely how the encryption works, by using the statistics of how often letters usually appear in a sentence in English in order to guess which words were used.
- 7Public Key/Private Key encryptionUsually used on the internet where communications cannot be exactly trusted. Public keys are exchanged, messages encrypted with public keys of receiving parties and receiving parties are able to decrypt the messages via the use of the private key.
- 8CompressionStoring data in a file in a way which takes up less space.
- 9Lossy compressionA type of compression which does not allow for the original image to be obtained, however it is much smaller than lossless compression usually is.
- 10Lossless CompressionA type of compression which does not alter the original file in any way, usually not as good as lossless compression but sometimes is the only way to store a certain type of file, for example for documents only zip/rar/.tar.gz compression may be used.
- 11Procedural Protection- Rules and procedures for employees to follow which will reduce chances of damage, and opportunity for malicious damage.
- 12Acceptable Use Policy- A set of rules which tells employees what they can do during work.
- 13Disaster Recovery Plan- All acceptable precautions may be put in place, however catastrophic failure might still happen, which may cause data loss.
- Earthquakes, terrorism, zero-day malware, and catastrophic hardware failure might be disastrous to a business.
- Such plans are designed to mitigate the damage caused by the disaster. - 14CybersecurityIt is a large part of the modern world.
Cyber crime costs large amounts of money to the industry each year. - 15Cyber crimeAny crime commited using digital communication.
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- Flashcards on Security, created by Mateusz Zawadzki on 26/04/2021.
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- Mateusz Zawadzki · Apr 2021
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