Information Systems Ch. 4

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Acceptable use policy

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a policty that a user must agree to follow in order to be provided access toa netowrk or to the internet

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Adware

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software that generates ads that install themselves on a coputer when a person downloads some other program from teh internet

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Anti-spam policy

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states that e-mail users will not send unsolicited e-mails.

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Authentication

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A method for confirming users' identification

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Authorization

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the process of giving someone permission to do or have something

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Backdoor Program

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viruses that open a way into the netowrk for future attacks

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Biometrics

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the identification of a user based on a physical characteristic, such as a fingerprint, iris, face, voice, or handwriting

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Black-hat tracker

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breaks into other people's computer systems and may just look aroudn or steal and destroy information

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Clickstream

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records information about a customer during a web surfing sesson such as waht websites were visited, how long the visit was, what ads wer viewed, and what was purchased

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Confidentiality

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the assurance that messages and information are available only to those who are authorized to view them

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Content filtering

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occurs when orgs use sofware that filters content to prevent the trnasmission of unathorized information

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Cookie

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A small file deposited on a hard drive by a web site containing information abotu customers and their web activities

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Copyright

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the legal protection afforded an expression of an idea such as a song video game and soem types of proprietary documents

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Counterfeit software

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software that is manufactured to look like the real kthing and sold as such

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Cracker

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a hacker with criminal intent

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Cyberterrorist

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seeks to cause harm to peopel or to destroy critical systems or infomration and sue the internet as a weapon of mass desturction

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Denial-of-service attack DoS

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floods a website with so many request for service tha tit slows down or crashed the site

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Distributed denial-of-service attack

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attachs from multiple computers that flood a web site with so many request for servcie tha tit slows down or crashes

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Elevation of privilege

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process by which a user misleads a system into granting unauthorized rights, usually for the puropose of compromising or destorying the system

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E-mail privacy policy

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details the exten tot which e-mail m3essages may be rad by others

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Encrypition

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scrambles information into an alternative form that requires a key or password to decrypt the info

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ePolicices

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policies and procedures that address the thical use of computers and internet usage int he business environement

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Ethical computer use policy

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contains general principles to guide coputer user behavior

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Ethics

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principles and standards that guide our behavior toward other people

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Fair use doctrine

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in certain situations, it is legal to use copyrighted material.

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Firewall

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hardware and or software tat guards a private network by analyzing the inforation leaving and entern the network

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Hacker

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people very knoledgeable about computers who use their knowledge to invade tother people's computers

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Hactivist

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person with philosophical and plitical reasons for breakign into systems and will often deface thw ebsite as a protest.

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Hardware key logger

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a hardwar device that caputres keystrokes on their journey from the keyboard to the motherboard

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Hoaxes

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attak computer systems by transmitting a virus hoax, with a real virus attached

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Identity Theft

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the foging of someone's identity for th purpose of fraud

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Information privacy policy

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contains general principles regarding nifomration privacy

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Infomation security

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a broad term encompassing the protectino of infomratino from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an org

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Information security plan

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details how an organization will implement the informatino security policies

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Information security policies

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identifies the rules re3qurd to maintain information security

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infomration technology monitoring

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tracking people's activities by such measures as number of keystrokes, error rate, and number of transactions processed

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Insider

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legitimate users who purposely or accidentally misue their access to the environment and cause some kind of business affecting incident

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Intellectual property

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intangible creative work that is embodied in physical form

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Internet use policy

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contains general principles to guide the proper use of the internet

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Intrusion detection software

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searches out patterns in information and network traffic to indicate attacks and quickly respons to prevent any harm

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Key logger software

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a program that when installed ona cmputer records every keystroke and mouse click

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mail bomb

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sends a massive amont of e-mail to a specivid person or system r4esulit in fillin up the recipiens diskspace, which, in some cases may be too much for the server to handle and may cause the sr4ver to stop functioning

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Malicious code

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includes a variety of threas such as viruses, worms, and trojan horses

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Nonrepudtionat

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a contractual stipulation to ensure that e-business praticipants do not deny their online actions

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Packet tampering

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alterin the contenst of packets as they trqavel over th internet or aleting data on computer disks after penetrating a network

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Phishing

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techinque to gain personal infomration for the purpose of identity theft, usually by means of fradulent e-mail

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Pirated software

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the unatutrized use, dupication, distribution, or sale of copyrgithed software

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Polymorphic virus and worm

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change their form as they propagate

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privacy

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the righ to be l3eft alone when you want5 to be, to have contyrol over your own peronal posessesions, and not to be observed without your consent5

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Public key encryption

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encryption system that uses two keys: a public key that everyon can have and private key for only the recipient

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Script kiddies or script bunnies

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faind hacking code onthe internet and click and piont their way into systems to cause damage or spr4ead viruses

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Smart card

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a device that is aroudn th same size a s a credit card, caontainig embedded technologies that can store infomration and small amounts of software to perform some limeitec processing

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Sniffer

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a program or devide that can monitor dta traveling over a network

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Social engineering

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using ones socieal skills t5o trick peopl into revealin access credentials or tohe rinfo valuable to the attacker

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Spam

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unsolicited e-mail

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Spoofing

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the forgin of the return address on an e=mail so that the e-mail message appears to come from someone other than the actgual sender

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Spyware

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sofware tha come hidden in free downlaodsable sofware and tracks online movements, mines the info stored ona computer, or uses a computers CPU and storage for some task the user knows nothing about

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Token

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small electronic devices that change user passworkd automatically

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Trojan-horse virus

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hides inside other sofware, usually as an attachment or a downloadable file

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Virus

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software written with maicious intent to cause annoyance or damage

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Web Log

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consist5s of one line of infomration for every visitor to a web site and isuauly sotred ona web server

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White-hat hacker

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works at the request of the system owner to find system vulnerablilties an plug the holes

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Worm

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a type of virus that spread itself, not only from fil to file, but also from computer to computer