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10 - Network Security and Threats

 1. ___________ is the practice of preventing and protecting against unauthorized intrusion into corporate networks; __________ focuses on how devices interact, and on the connective tissue between them.
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  Cache Security

  IMAC Security

  Individual Indemnity

  Network Security

 2. There are different types of Network threats. They are usually either _________ or ___________ attacks.

  Evil / Good

  Logic / Tiresome

  Maintenance / Hacker

  Logic / resource

 3. Which type of attack is this excerpt referring to? Fill in the blanks. 
A second example of a ____________ attack / threat to network 
security concerns the notorious ping of death. 

In this vile attack, the perpetrator dispatches ICMP packets off to 
a system which will be greater in size than the maximum allowed capacity.

  Deathly

  Logic

  Resource

  Masonic

 4. Which type of attack is this example referring to?
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  Deathly

  Satanic

  Logic

  Resource

 5. The majority of these sorts of assaults are simply avoided by_______________which proves to be vulnerable or by filtering out particular packet sequences.

  eliminating hackers

  downgrading software

  disengaging from the internet

  upgrading software

 6. Fill in the blanks in the excerpt below that outlines the nature of a resource attack. 
 Such assaults are primarily meant to overwhelm important system
 resources, like R ____________ and C___________resources. 
 This is principally accomplished via dispatching numerous 
 forged requests or IP packets to the network in question.

  Raiders and Cages

  ROM and Computer

  RAM and CPU

  Rollers and Controllers

 7. What are the commonly used terms to describe this sort of resource attack/threat?
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  vampire

  merciless

  devil

  zombie

 8. Which of the following is NOT a type of network attack? 
There are at least seven types of network attacks.
1. Spoofing.
2. Sniffing.
3. Mapping.
4. Hijacking.
5. Trojans.
6. DoS and DDoS.
7. Social engineering.

  None of them are

  2 and 5 are not

  5 is not

  They all are

 9. Internal threats inside an organisation that can compromise the network include employee theft, weak access control and ______________

  Privilege abuse

  Verbal abuse

  Violent abuse

  Substance abuse

 10. A distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack is a challenge to make an online service ______________________

  inaccessible by overpowering it with traffic from numerous sources

  inaccessible by damaging the network's power supply

  accessible by allowing traffic from anywhere to enter freely

  inaccessible by squeezing trojan horses through the cables

 11. It is worth noting (see screenshot below) that Wikipedia divides network threats into two types:
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  active and lazy

  human and alien

  massive and small

  passive and active

 12. Networks in a local area network are always perfectly secure, as compared to the internet.

  FALSE

  TRUE

 13. School networks are safe from any network threats as they connect to the internet via an ISP (Internet Secure Provider)

  FALSE

  TRUE

 14. Some companies divide up the different network threats into the following categories: internal threat, system threat and_______________

  worm threat

   external threat

  technician threat

  middle man threat

 15. Networks in a company could also be in danger or under threat from employee theft and abuse of the network.

  FALSE

  TRUE


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