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Autor: manmeet • June 9, 2011 • Essay • 2,728 Words (11 Pages) • 2,595 Views
What does ARPA stand for?
ANSWER: The Department of Defense's (DoD's) Advanced Research Procurement/Project Agency.
Which DoD report attempted to define the multiple control mechanisms necessary for the protection of a multilevel computer system?
ANSWER: The Rand Report R-609.
What was the name of the now obsolete operating system designed for security objectives?
ANSWER: MULTICS.
What is the security that addresses the issues needed to protect items, objects, or areas?
ANSWER: Physical security
What is the security that addresses the protection of individuals or groups authorized to access an organization?
ANSWER: Personal security
What is the security that encompasses the protection of an organization's communications media, technology, and content?
ANSWER: Communications security
If information has a state of being genuine or original and is not a fabrication, it has the characteristic of ________
ANSWER: authenticity
The characteristic of information that deals with preventing disclosure is ________
ANSWER: confidentiality
Information security programs that begin at a grassroots level by system administrators to improve security are often called a (n) ________ approach.
ANSWER: bottom-up
When projects are initiated at the highest levels of an organization and then pushed to all levels, they are said to follow a (n) __________ approach.
ANSWER: top-down
Who is the person responsible for the security and use of a particular set of information?
ANSWER: The data owner
Who is the person responsible for the storage, maintenance, and protection of the information?
ANSWER: The data custodian
What are the three most commonly encountered communities of interest which have roles and responsibilities in information security?
ANSWER:
1 Information security management and professionals,
2 information technology management and professionals,
3 organizational
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