Flashcards
Security
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- 1What does Data Entry mean in terms of security?Security or data threat as data is on screen
- 2What is an example of malpractice within data entry?Account number has been transferred incorrectly causing a mistake(no data validation/verification)
- 3What is a criminal example of data entry?A data clerk deliberately enters wrong account number to steal money
- 4Who is an internal threat of data entry?The employee working in accounts
- 5Who is an external threat of data entry?Customer data entry
- 6Name ways you can protect and prevent data entry faultsDouble entry
Monitor access
Automatic logging
Double authorisation - 7What does Not Following Procedures mean in terms of security?Not following rules/routines set out for the system e.g.
Aup=acceptable use policy - 8What is an example of malpractice for this?Forgetting to lock a computer when leaving it unattended
- 9What is a criminal example of Not Following Procedures?Deliberately leaving computers for someone to access data
- 10What is an internal threat for this?Employees that have not been trained/show the procedures
- 11What is an external threat of this?Somebody who has been given access externally but has not had procedures explained
- 12Name ways you protect and prevent thisTraining
- 13What does Use of Portable Computers mean in terms of security?Loss of control because equipment is being used off the main system
- 14What is a malpractice example of this?Accidental loss of equipment
- 15What is a criminal example of this?Purposely taking details home to be used without authority
- 16What is an internal threat of this?Employees who take data away from the site
- 17What is an external threat of this?Person who takes the information
- 18Name ways you can protect and prevent thisKeep equipment in building
Keep in a secure place - 19What does Data Stored Offline mean in terms of security?Data stored on other devices e.g. CD-R, memory stick etc.
- 20What is an example of malpractice for this?Take a memory stick home and lose it
- 21What is a criminal example of this?Deliberately downloading files with an intent to use maliciously
- 22What is an internal threat of this?Employee who has access to the system
- 23What is an external threat of this?Access via storage like cloud service and copying it
- 24Name ways you can protect and prevent thisOnly authorised memory sticks used
Encrypted memory sticks
Procedures that controls who can download and what they can download - 25What does IT Personnel mean in terms of security?Staff you employ to look after your system (reliability)
- 26What is an example of malpractice for this?Giving access to someone without checking
- 27What is a criminal example of this?Abusing password and deliberately causing harm to the system
- 28What is an internal threat of this?Employed IT department
- 29What is an external threat of this?Third party outsourcing
Industrial espionage - 30Name ways you can protect and prevent thisDBS/legal checks
References
Questions - 31What does Hacking mean in terms of security?Unauthorised access to data on a computer system
- 32What is an example of malpractice for this?None really
If you had no intention of doing anything wrong - 33What is a criminal example of this?Deliberately bypassing security to get in to and do something
- 34What is an internal threat of this?Person who works for you taking the data
- 35What is an external threat of this?Anybody deliberately getting into a company who otherwise
- 36Name ways you can protect and prevent thisPassword discipline
Terminals logged off
Restricted access
All access monitored
Computer Misuse Act 1990 - 37What does Networks mean in terms of security?When data is transferred a WAN any data transmission can be tapped and listened in to
- 38What is an example of malpractice for this?Using open Wi-Fi to access accounts e.g. online banking
- 39What is a criminal example of this?Hacking in to a person’s network
- 40What is an internal threat of this?Customer on the Wi-Fi
Leaving your computer open - 41What is an external threat of this?Hacker/ someone looking for unsecure network
- 42Name ways you can protect and prevent thisFirewalls
Virus Protection
Identifications of users
Levels of access - 43What does Viruses / Illegal Programs mean in terms of security?Computer code written with the sole purpose of infecting a system
- 44What is an example of malpractice for this?Email distribution of a virus
- 45What is a criminal example of this?Writing the virus to cause harm to a system
- 46What is an internal threat of this?People in the organisation pressing on the emails
- 47What is an external threat of this?The people sending out the emails
- 48Name ways to protect and prevent thisAnti-virus software
Filters on systems - 49What are the 4 types of virusOrigination
Transmission
Reproduction
Infection - 50What is Origination?A programmer writes a program - the virus - to cause mischief or destruction.
- 51What is transmission?Often, the virus is attached to a normal program. it then copies itself to other software on the hard disk
- 52What is reproduction?When another floppy disk is inserted into the computer's disk drive, the virus copies itself on to the floppy disk
- 53What is infection?Depending on what the original programmer wrote in the virus program, a virus may display messages, use up all the computer's memory, destroy data files or cause serious system errors.
- 54What are the different categories of computer crime?Unauthorised Access - hacking
Fraud - stealing credit identities
Publication of illicit material - porn
Theft - physically or electronically stolen
Industrial espionage - gaining access to info
Sabotage - damage of an organisation - 55How can you protect software?Passwords
Permissions - 56How can you protect a combination of hardware and software?Biometrics (hardware=fingerprint scanner, software=interpretation)
- 57Name some physical security?security guards
secure areas
biometric access devices
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- A level IT (Info 2) FlashCards sobre Security, criado por Daisy Palmer em 05-04-2017.
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