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PASS Define the confidentiality in the CIA triad. - ANSWER Our ability to protect data from those who are not authorized to view it.

Examples of confidentiality - ANSWER A patron using an ATM card wants to keep their PIN number confidential.An ATM owner wants to keep bank account numbers confidential.

How can confidentiality be broken? - ANSWER Losing a laptop An attacker gets access to info A person can look over your shoulder

Define integrity in the CIA triad. - ANSWER The ability to prevent people from changing your data and the ability to reverse unwanted changes.

How do you control integrity? - ANSWER Permissions restrict what users can do (read, write, etc.)

Examples of integrity - ANSWER Data used by a doctor to make medical decisions needs to be correct or the patient can die.

Define the availability in the CIA triad. - ANSWER Our data needs to be accessible when we need it.

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How can availability be broken? - ANSWER Loss of power, application problems. If caused by an attacker, this is a Denial of Service attack.

Define information security. - ANSWER The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Define the Parkerian Hexad and its principles. - ANSWER The Parkerian Hexad includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability from the CIA triad. It also includes possession (or control), authenticity, and utility.

Authenticity - ANSWER Whether the data in question comes from who or where it says it comes from (i.e. did this person actually send this email?)

Confidentiality is affected by what type of attack? - ANSWER Interception (eaves dropping)

Integrity is affected by what type of attacks? - ANSWER Interruption (assets are unusable), modification (tampering with an asset), fabrication (generating false data)

Authenticity is affected by what type of attacks? - ANSWER Interruption (assets are unusable), modification (tampering with an asset), fabrication (generating false data)

Utility - ANSWER How useful the data is to you (can be a spectrum, not just yes or no)

Possession - ANSWER Do you physically have the data in question? Used to describe the scope of a loss

Identify the four types of attacks - ANSWER interception, interruption, modification, and fabrication

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