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What is the main goal of confidentiality?
What is the main goal of confidentiality?
- Securing information against malicious actions (correct)
- Ensuring timely, accurate, complete, and consistent data
- Preventing unauthorized changes to data
- Blocking unauthorized attempts to modify information
Which mechanism supports confidentiality?
Which mechanism supports confidentiality?
- Detection
- Prevention
- Access Control (correct)
- Digital Signatures
What is the main goal of integrity?
What is the main goal of integrity?
- Preventing unauthorized changes to data (correct)
- Blocking unauthorized attempts to modify information
- Ensuring timely, accurate, complete, and consistent data
- Maintaining the availability of information
What type of integrity refers to the trustworthiness of information and programs being changed only in a specified and authorized manner?
What type of integrity refers to the trustworthiness of information and programs being changed only in a specified and authorized manner?
Which threat blocks the availability of information?
Which threat blocks the availability of information?
Confidentiality refers to the ability to use information when desired for the authorized users.
Confidentiality refers to the ability to use information when desired for the authorized users.
Data integrity is assured when it is timely, accurate, complete, and consistent.
Data integrity is assured when it is timely, accurate, complete, and consistent.
Prevention in integrity mechanisms seeks to maintain the integrity of the data by reporting the violation of integrity.
Prevention in integrity mechanisms seeks to maintain the integrity of the data by reporting the violation of integrity.
Snooping is the unauthorized interception of information, such as listening to communications or browsing through files or information.
Snooping is the unauthorized interception of information, such as listening to communications or browsing through files or information.
Availability is the ability to block the availability of information for unauthorized users.
Availability is the ability to block the availability of information for unauthorized users.
Study Notes
Confidentiality
- Main goal is to ensure that information is accessible only to authorized users.
- Mechanisms supporting confidentiality include encryption, access controls, and secure communication protocols.
Integrity
- Main goal is to maintain the accuracy and trustworthiness of information.
- Integrity refers to the assurance that information and programs are modified only in specified and authorized manners.
Types of Integrity
- Integrity mechanisms focus on preventing unauthorized changes, ensuring that data remains complete, accurate, timely, and consistent.
- Prevention strategies maintain data integrity by detecting and reporting any violations.
Threats to Availability
- Snooping, the unauthorized interception of information, can block the availability of information by compromising secure communications or accessing sensitive files.
- Availability ensures that authorized users can access information when needed, without interference from unauthorized parties.
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Test your knowledge of data security principles including confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Learn about access control, cryptography mechanisms, and data integrity requirements.
