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Student Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  1. Analyze why information systems need special protection from destruction, error, and abuse.
  2. Assess the business value of security and control.
  3. Design an organizational framework for security and control.
  4. Evaluate the most important tools and technologies for safeguarding information resources.


 This activity contains 35 questions.

Question 1.
Common threats against information systems come from all of the following factors except

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Question 2.
Eavesdroppers driving by buildings and trying to intercept wireless network traffic is called


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Question 3.
Malware includes all of the following except

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Question 4.
An eavesdropping program that monitors information traveling over a network is called a program.

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Question 5.
Sending email messages that look like those of legitimate businesses to ask users for personal data is called


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Question 6.
The single greatest cause of network security breaches is


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Question 7.
Firms providing financial services must comply with the ______________ for electronic records management.

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Question 8.
Which of the following ensures that internal controls are in place to govern the creation and documentation of information in financial statements?

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Question 9.
Which of the following is not a problem that computer forensics deals with?

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Question 10.
Determining different levels of access to information assets for different levels of users is covered by a firm's


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Question 11.
Which type of system eliminates recovery time altogether?

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Question 12.
Which of the following identifies all of the controls that govern individual information systems and assesses their effectiveness?

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Question 13.
Security systems based on physical or behavioral traits are called


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Question 14.
The firewall screening technology that determines whether packets are part of an ongoing dialogue between a sender and receiver is called


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Question 15.
Which type of encryption verifies the origin and content of a message and provides a way to associate a message with a sender?

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Question 16.
Internal networks are more vulnerable to security breaches than the Internet.

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Question 17.
Radio frequency bands for wireless networks are easy to scan.

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Question 18.
The security standard for Wi-Fi called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is extremely secure.

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Question 19.
E-mail worms are currently the most problematic form of malware.

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Question 20.
Key logger programs can be used to gain access to e-mail accounts.

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Question 21.
Denial-of-service attacks often destroy valuable company information.

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Question 22.
Many companies are reluctant to report computer crimes.

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Question 23.
Many firms spend heavily on security because it significantly increases sales revenue.

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Question 24.
Data that has been deleted from computer storage media can be recovered even if it is not visible to the average user.

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Question 25.
High-availability computing systems help firms recover quickly from a system crash.

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Question 26.
Disaster recovery planning identifies critical business processes and determines action plans for handling mission-critical functions if systems go down.

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Question 27.
Smart cards used in security systems display passcodes that change frequently.

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Question 28.
In large organizations, a firewall often resides on a specially designated computer separate from the rest of the network.

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Question 29.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) improves data encryption for wireless networks by using 128-bit keys that continually change.

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Question 30.
Digital certificates are used to encrypt network traffic on the Web.

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