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1\. **Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate** -- validates the skills required of associate-level cybersecurity analysts within security operations centers. 2\. **ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)** -- most recognizable and popular security certification. To take the exa...

1\. **Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate** -- validates the skills required of associate-level cybersecurity analysts within security operations centers. 2\. **ISC2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)** -- most recognizable and popular security certification. To take the exam, you must have at least five years of relevant industry experience. 3\. **EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)** -- tests your understanding and knowledge of looking for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems using the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker but lawfully and legitimately. 4\. **CompTIA Security+** - entry-level security certification meets the U.S Department of Defense Directive 8570.01-M requirements, which is an essential item for anyone looking to work in IT security for the federal government. 5\. **Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Security Fundamentals** -- aims at high school and early college students and those interested in a career change. 6\. **Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Associate** -- entry-level certification for newcomers preparing to start their careers in the cybersecurity field. 7\. **ISACA CSX Cybersecurity Fundamentals Certificate** -- gears toward recent post-secondary graduates and those interested in a career change. This certificate does now expire or require periodic recertification. 8\. **CyberSeek** -- a tool that provides detailed data about supply and demand in the cybersecurity job market to help close the cybersecurity skills gap. 9\. **Cybersecurity** -- ongoing effort to protect individuals, organizations, and governments from digital attacks. 10\. **Hardware vulnerabilities** -- most often the result of hardware design flaws like the Rowhammer. 11\. **Software vulnerabilities** -- can be errors in the operating system or application code. 12\. **Amateur hacker** -- script kiddies 13\. **White hat hackers** -- they break into networks or computer systems to identify any weaknesses so that the security of a system of network can be improved. 14\. **Black hat hackers** -- take advantage of any vulnerability for illegal personal, financial, or political gain. 15\. **Gray hat hackers** -- set out to find vulnerabilities in a system, but they will only report their findings to the owners of a system if doing so coincides with their agenda. 16\. **Organized hackers** -- organizations of cyber criminals, hacktivists, terrorists, and state-sponsored hackers. 17\. **State-sponsored attackers** -- they used the Stuxnet malware that was design not just to hijack targeted computers but to actually cause physical damage to equipment controlled by computers. 18\. **Cyberwarfare** -- gaining advantage over adversaries, whether they are nations or competitors. 19\. **McCumber Cube** -- model framework created in 1991 to help organizations establish and evaluate information security initiatives by considering all related factors that impact them. 20\. **Security Breach** -- can have a negative long-term impact on an organization's reputation that has taken years to build. 21\. **Data Breach** -- sensitive personal data has been stolen. 22\. **Cybercriminals** -- can make this information public or exploit it to steal an individual's money and/or identity. 23\. **Cyberattacks** -- can originate from within an organization as well as from outside of it. 24\. **Spyware** -- monitors your online activity and can log every key you press on you keyboard and capture almost any of your data, including sensitive personal information such as your online banking details. 25\. **Adware** -- installs with some software versions, and its design is to automatically deliver advertisements to a user, most often on a web browser. 26\. **Backdoor** -- gains unauthorized access by bypassing the normal authentication procedures to access a system. 27\. **Scareware** -- consists of operating system-style windows that warn you that your system is at risk and needs to run a specific program to return to normal operation. 28\. **Ransomware** -- holds a computer system or the data it contains captive until it makes a payment. 29\. **Rootkit** -- modify system forensics and monitoring tools, making them very hard to detect. 30\. **Virus** -- replicates and attaches itself to other executable files, such as a document, by inserting its code. 31\. **Trojan Horse** -- appears legitimate but is very dangerous. 32\. **Worm** -- replicates itself to spread from one computer to another. 33\. **Pretexting** -- when an attacker calls an individual and lies to them to gain access to confidential data. 34\. **Social Engineering** -- manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. 35\. **Tailgating** -- when an attacker quickly follows an authorized person into a secure, physical location. 36\. **Quid pro quo** -- when an attacker requests personal information from someone in exchange for something, like a gift. 37\. **DoS** -- creates overwhelming quantity of traffic that results in some interruption of network service to users, devices, or applications. 38\. **DDoS** -- originates from multiple coordinated sources where botnet of zombies carry out this attack instructed by a hacker through some handler systems. 39\. **Botnet** -- group of bots connected through the internet that a malicious individual or group can control. 40\. **MitM** -- when an attacker can intercept and capture user information before it sends it to its intended destination where often steals financial information. 41\. **MitMo** -- used to take control over a user's mobile device where instructions exfiltrates user sensitive information and send it to the attackers. An example is the **ZeuS** which allows attackers to capture two-step verification SMS messages sent to users quietly. 42\. **SEO Poisoning** -- increase traffic to malicious sites that may host malware of attempt social engineering. 43\. **Password Spraying** -- attempts to gain access to a system by spraying a few commonly used passwords across many accounts. 44\. **Dictionary Attack** -- tries every word in a dictionary or a list of commonly used words as a password to break into password-protected account. 45\. **Brute-force attacks** -- the simplest, most commonly used way of gaining access to a password- protected site using all possible combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols in the password space until they get it right. 46\. **Rainbow attacks** -- compares the hash of a password with those stored in the rainbow table and when an attacker finds a match, they identify the password used to create the hash. 47\. **APT (Advanced Persistent Threat)** -- multi-phase, long-term, stealthy, and advanced operation against a specific target where its primary purpose is to deploy customized malware on one or more of the target's systems and remain there undetected. 48\. **SYNful Knock** -- to gain control of enterprise-grade routers, such as the legacy Cisco ISR Routers, from which they could monitor all network communication and infect other network devices. 49\. **Buffer overflow** -- amount of data in the buffer exceeds its storage capacity and the extra data overflows into adjacent memory locations and corrupts or overwrites the data in those locations. 50\. **Non-validated input** -- programs often require input, but this incoming data could have malicious content that unintentionally forces the program to behave. 51\. **Race conditions** -- describes a situation where the output of an event depends on ordered or timed outputs and thus became a source of exposure when the required ordered or timed events did not occur in the correct order or at the proper time. 52\. **Organizational level** -- everyone's responsibility to protect the organization's reputation, data, and customers. 53\. **Government level** -- more digital information is being gathered and shared hence the protection becomes even more vital where national security, economic stability, and the safety and wellbeing of citizens are at stake. 54\. **Personal level** - there is a need to safeguard your identity, your data, and your computing devices. 55\. **Personal data** - any information that can be used to identify you, and it can exist both offline and online. 56\. **Medical record** - information regarding the physical and mental health and well-being of a person. 57\. **Education records** - academic qualifications and achievements of a person. 58\. **Financial record** - information of your tax records, paychecks, credit card statements, etc. 59\. **ISP (Internet Service Provider)** - may track your online activity and may sell the data to advertisers for a profit and they may also legally share these data with government agencies or authorities. 60\. **Advertisers** - monitor and track your online activities such as shopping habits and personal preferences and send targeted ads your way. 61\. **Social Media** - platforms that gather information about your gender, geolocation, phone number, political and religious ideologies based on your search histories and online identity and then sold to advertisers for a profit. 62\. **Website visits** - use cookies to track your activities to provide a more personalized experience but leave data trails linked to your online identity that can often end up in the hands of advertisers. 63\. **Transactional data** - details relating to buying and selling, production activities, and basic organizational operations such as any information used to make employment decisions. 64\. **Intellectual property** - patents, trademarks, and new product plans, and allow an organization to gain economic advantage over its competitors where losing its trade secrets could prove disastrous for the future of a company. 65\. **Financial data** - income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, provide insight into the health of a company. 66\. **IoT** - a large network of physical objects, such as sensors, software, and other equipment. 67\. **Confidentiality** - set of rules that prevents sensitive information from being disclosed to unauthorized people, resources, and processes. 68\. **Integrity** - Ensures that system information or processes are protected from intentional or accidental modification. 69\. **Availability** - authorized users are able to access systems and data when and where needed. 70\. **Big Data** - emergence of IoT has led to exponential growth in data, creating a new area of interest in technology and business. 71\. **Access Control** - process of controlling who does what and ranges from managing physical access to equipment to dictating who has access to a resource, such as a file, and what they can do with it, such as read or change the file. 72\. **Cryptocurrency** - digital money used to buy goods and services, using strong encryption techniques to secure online transactions. 73\. **Virtual Wallets** - Cryptocurrency owners keep their money in encrypted. 74\. **Encryption** - process of converting information into a form in which unauthorized parties cannot read it. 75\. **SDelete** - Used by Microsoft to remove sensitive files altogether. 76\. **Secure Empty Trash** - Used by MacOS X to provide a service that will remove sensitive files. 77\. **Shred** - Used by Linux to remove sensitive files. 78\. **Data use policy** - how the service provider will collect, use and share your data. 79\. **Security policy** - what the company is doing to secure the data it obtains from you. 80\. **Terms of service** - some sections, from user rights and responsibilities to disclaimers and account modification terms. 81\. **Two-factor authentication** - Requires a second token to verify your identity. 82\. **OAuth** - An open standard protocol that allows you to use your credentials to access third-party applications without exposing your password. 83\. **EFS (Encrypting File System)** - A Windows feature that can encrypt data. 84\. **Routers** - Device where the primary use is to interconnect various network segments and provide basic traffic filtering capabilities. 85\. **IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)** - These systems use a set of traffic signatures that match and block malicious traffic and attacks. 86\. **Firewalls** - These looks deeper into the network traffic to block malicious behavior and can have sophisticated security policies applied to the traffic passing through them. 87\. **Virtual Private Network** - let remote employees use a secure encrypted tunnel from their mobile computer and securely connect to the organization's network. 88\. **Network layer firewall** - It filters communications based on source and destination IP addresses. 89\. **Application layer firewall** - Filters communications based on an application, program, or service. 90\. **Transport layer firewall** - It filters communications based on source and destination data ports and connection states. 91\. **Host-based firewall** - Filters ports and system service call on a single computer operating system. 92\. **Perform a risk assessment** - Knowing and understanding the value of what you are protecting will help to justify security expenditures. 93\. **Physical security measure** - Restrict access to networking closets and server locations and fire suppression. 94\. **Create a security policy** - Clearly outlines the organization's rules, job roles, responsibilities, and employee expectations. 95\. **HR Security measures** - Completion of background checks should be for all employees. 96\. **Perform and test backups** - Back up information regularly and test data recovery from backups. 97\. **Regularly test incident response** - Employ an incident response team and test emergency response scenarios. 98\. **Maintain security patches and updates** - Regularly update server, client, and network device operating systems and programs. 99\. **Employ access controls** - Configure user roles and privilege levels and strong user authentication. 100\. **Honeypots** - This is a behavior-based detection tool that lures attackers in by appealing to their predicted pattern of malicious behavior and once the attacker is inside, the network administrator can capture, log and analyze their behavior so that they can build a better defense. 101\. **Netflow** - This is an essential component in behavior-based detection and analysis that gathers information about data flowing through a network, including who and what devices are in the network and when and how users and devices access the network. 102\. **Behavior-based security** - A form of threat detection that captures and analyzes the flow of communication between a user on the local network and a local or remote destination and any changes in normal behavior patterns are regarded as anomalies and may indicate an attack. 103\. **Penetration testing** - This assesses a computer system, network, or organization for security vulnerabilities and seeks to breach systems, people, processes, and code that could exploit vulnerabilities. 104\. **Risk management** - This is a formal process of continuously identifying and assessing risk to reduce the impact of threats and vulnerabilities. 105\. **Personal Legal Issues** - You may have the opportunity and skills to hack another person\'s computer or network at work or home. But there is an old saying, \'Just because you can does not mean you should.\' Most hacks leave tracks that can trace back to you. 106\. **Corporate Legal Issues** - Businesses and organizations must abide by the cybersecurity laws that most countries have. **International law and cybersecurity** -- is a constantly evolving field. Cyber attacks occur in cyberspace, an electronic space created, maintained, and owned by the public and private entities. There are no\ traditional geographic boundaries in cyberspace. To further complicate issues, it is much easier to\ mask the source of an attack in cyberwarfare than in conventional warfare.