Compare and contrast access control models Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (210-250) Discretionary Access Control Discretionary Access Control (DAC) allows the owner of the data to assign read or write rights to each file to whomever they choose. This makes it very flexible, but there is no central control. It is also prone to violations of […]
Describe these security terms: Principle of least privilege, risk scoring/risk weighting, risk reduction, risk assessment. Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (210-250) Principle of Least Privilege The principle of least privilege states that a user should only be granted the least amount of rights to do their job. By limiting the rights of users, the amount of […]
Describe these terms: Threat actor, run book automation, chain of custody, reverse engineering, sliding window anomaly detection, PII and PHI. Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (210-250) Threat Actor A threat actor is the individual or group that performs the attack or security incident. Several types of threat actors exist. Script kiddies: Uses existing scripts to hack […]
Compare and contrast these concepts: Risk, Threat, Vulnerability, and Exploit. Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (210-250) Risk: the possibility that something bad will happenThreat: any potential danger to a security assetVulnerability: exploitable weakness in a system or designExploit: software or commands that take advantage of a vulnerability Risk is the possibility of a vulnerability being exploited. […]
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