Studies show that a company's biggest security threat is its own employees. The SANS Institute recommends that organizations should take time to educate their employees about computer security and periodically test employees to make sure they understand the basics. To help you in your efforts to raise security awareness in your organization, we've created the following quiz.
How to take the quiz:
- After reading the question, click on the answer that you think is
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- After reading the question, write down the letter of your answer
choice on scrap paper. Check your answers by using the answer key at the
end of the quiz.
Are you the weakest link?
1. This is a document that states in writing how a company plans to protect the company's physical and IT assets.
a. Data Encryption Standard
b. security policy
c. public key certificate
d. access control list
e. copyright
2. This is a program or file that is specifically developed for the purpose of doing harm.
a. buffer overflow
b. bastion host
c. malware
d. ping sweep
e. passphrase
3. This is a set of related programs, usually located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from other networks.
a. firewall
b. sandbox
c. rootkit
d. password cracker
e. general protection fault
4. This is a class of programs that searches your hard drive and floppy disks for any known or potential viruses.
a. intrusion detection
b. Security Identifier
c. Antigen
d. probe
e. antivirus software
5. In computer security, this describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction. It often involves tricking people to break their own security procedures.
a. cyberterrorism
b. debugging
c. hijacking
d. nonrepudiation
e. social engineering
6. This is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data.
a. war dialer
b. spam trap
c. smurf
d. Trojan horse
e. walled garden
7. This is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be.
a. conditional access
b. anonymizer
c. bypass
d. user profile
e. authentication
8. This is the conversion of data into a ciphertext that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.
a. brute force cracking
b. tunneling
c. encryption
d. ciphertext feedback
e. cloaking
9. To be effective, this should ideally contain at least one digit and not match a natural language word.
a. digital signature
b. smart card
c. public key
d. password
e. signature file
10. This is an agreement a company may ask an employee to sign that specifies what is considered to be appropriate (or inappropriate) use of e-mail or Web browsing.
a. RSA
b. AUP
c. SET
d. VPN
e. PKI
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