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Are you the weakest link?

1. This is a document that states in writing how a company plans to protect the company's physical and IT assets.
a. Data Encryption Standard
b. security policy
c. public key certificate
d. access control list
e. copyright

2. This is a program or file that is specifically developed for the purpose of doing harm.
a. buffer overflow
b. bastion host
c. malware
d. ping sweep
e. passphrase

3. This is a set of related programs, usually located at a network gateway server, that protects the resources of a private network from other networks.
a. firewall
b. sandbox
c. rootkit
d. password cracker
e. general protection fault

4. This is a class of programs that searches your hard drive and floppy disks for any known or potential viruses.
a. intrusion detection
b. Security Identifier
c. Antigen
d. probe
e. antivirus software

5. In computer security, this describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction. It often involves tricking people to break their own security procedures.
a. cyberterrorism
b. debugging
c. hijacking
d. nonrepudiation
e. social engineering

6. This is a program in which malicious or harmful code is contained inside apparently harmless programming or data.
a. war dialer
b. spam trap
c. smurf
d. Trojan horse
e. walled garden

7. This is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be.
a. conditional access
b. anonymizer
c. bypass
d. user profile
e. authentication

8. This is the conversion of data into a ciphertext that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.
a. brute force cracking
b. tunneling
c. encryption
d. ciphertext feedback
e. cloaking

9. To be effective, this should ideally contain at least one digit and not match a natural language word.
a. digital signature
b. smart card
c. public key
d. password
e. signature file

10. This is an agreement a company may ask an employee to sign that specifies what is considered to be appropriate (or inappropriate) use of e-mail or Web browsing.
a. RSA
b. AUP
c. SET
d. VPN
e. PKI

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