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Information Security

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show PRIVACY The right to be left alone and to be free of unreasonable personal intrusion.INFORMATION PRIVACY the right to determine when, and to what extent, personal information can be gathered by and/or communicated to others  
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show 1. The right of privacy is not absolute. Privacy must be balanced against the needs of society. 2. The public's right to know supersedes the individual's right of privacy.  
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show The process of forming a digital dossier (An electronic description of an individual and his or her habits)  
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show Tracking people's activities with the aid of computers  
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URL filtering   show
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Opt-out informed consent   show
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Opt-in informed consent   show
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show Crime in which someone uses the personal information of others to create a false identity and then uses it for some fraud  
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Browser history   show
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Personal firewall   show
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Anti-malware   show
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show type of program designed to prevent and detect unwanted spyware program installations and to remove those programs if installed  
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Content-filtering software   show
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show device or software application that monitors network or system activities for malicious activities or policy violations and produces reports to a management station.  
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Two-factor authentication   show
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show any network within your organization  
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Untrusted network   show
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show A denial-of-service attack that sends a flood of data packets from many compromised computers simultaneously.  
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Zombies (bots)   show
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show Malicious software such as viruses and worms  
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show A software program containing a hidden function that presents a security risk  
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show Malicious software that can attach itself to (or “infect”) other computer programs without the owner of the program being aware of the infection.  
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Worm   show
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show An attack that uses deception to fraudulently acquire sensitive personal information by masquerading as an official-looking e-mail  
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show Getting around security systems by tricking computer users inside a company into revealing sensitive information or gaining unauthorized access privileges  
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show Controls that restrict unauthorized individuals from gaining access to a company's computer facilities  
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Access controls   show
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show A process that determines the identity of the person requiring access.  
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Password   show
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show a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data  
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show A process that determines which actions, rights, or privileges the person has, based on verified identity.  
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show The science and technology of authentication (i.e., establishing the identity of an individual) by measuring the subject's physiologic or behavioral characteristics.  
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Firewall   show
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show A process in which a company identifies acceptable software and permits it to run, and either prevents anything else from running or lets new software run in a quarantined environment until the company can verify its validity.  
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show A process in which a company identifies certain types of software that are not allowed to run in the company environment.  
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show The process of converting an original message into a form that cannot be read by anyone except the intended receiver.  
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Public-key encryption   show
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show An electronic document attached to a file certifying that this file is from the organization it claims to be from and has not been modified from its original format or content.  
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