Information Security: Vulnerabilities and Threats
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What is a vulnerability in the context of information security?

  • A weakness that could be exploited by a threat source (correct)
  • The presence of adversaries seeking to exploit cyber resources
  • The compromised information stored on systems
  • The irreversible losses to an organization

How do vulnerabilities leave systems susceptible?

  • To the compromise of entire databases at an operations center
  • To the presence of adversarial threat sources
  • To a multitude of activities that can result in significant losses (correct)
  • To natural disasters and erroneous actions by individuals

What type of threat source can exploit system vulnerabilities?

  • Neither adversarial nor non-adversarial
  • Adversarial and non-adversarial (correct)
  • Only adversarial
  • Only non-adversarial

What do adversarial threat sources seek to exploit?

<p>An organization’s dependence on cyber resources (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who can be known to defraud organizational systems?

<p>Employees, privileged users, and trusted users (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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