WGU, Information Security and Assurance (C725), SET III

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A job title: Have access to information resources in accordance with the owner-defined controls and access rules. Correct Answer: Users One purpose of a security awareness program is to modify whi... ch of the following? A. Employees' attitudes and behaviors B. Management's approach C. Attitudes of employees toward sensitive data D. Corporate attitudes about safeguarding data Correct Answer: A. Employees' attitudes and behaviors Explanation: Because people are the weakest link in any security-related process, it's crucial that a security program address user education, awareness, and training on policies and procedures that affect them. The totality of protection mechanisms within a computer system, including hardware, firmware, and software. It consists of one or more components that together enforce a unified security policy over a product or system Correct Answer: Trusted Computing Base (TCB) A software model that mediates all access from any subject (user or other device) to any object (resource, data, and so forth); it cannot be bypassed.It mediates accesses to objects by subjects. In principle, it should be: Complete, to mediate every access Isolated from modification by other system entities (objects and processes) Verifiable, doing only what it's programmed to do and not being susceptible to circumvention by malicious acts or programmer error Correct Answer: reference monitor a.k.a. abstract machine Implementation of a reference monitor for a specific hardware base, such as Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, or Mac OS X. Correct Answer: security kernel The TCB, reference monitor, and security kernel are essential for military- and government-grade information technology (IT) security to prevent unauthorized access or threats to the integrity of programs, operating systems, or data. T or F [Show More]

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