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WGU C836 FUNDAMENTALS OF
INFORMATION SECURITY OA 2025 EXAM
PREP/COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
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Protecting an organization's information and information systems
Information Security from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption,
modification, or destruction.
Requirements that are set forth by laws and
Compliance
industry regulations.
CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
Refers to our ability to protect our data from those who are not
Confidentiality
authorized to use/view it
The ability to prevent people from changing your data in an
Integrity
unauthorized or undesirable manner
Availability Refers to the ability to access our data when we need it
refers to the physical disposition of the media on which the data
Possession/Control is stored. (tape examples where some are encrypted and some
are not)
whether you've attributed the data in question to the proper
Authenticity owner or creator. (altered email that says it's from one person
when it's not - violation of the authenticity of the email)
Utility refers to how useful the data is to you.
interception, interruption, modification, and
Attacks
fabrication
attacks that allow unauthorized users to access your data,
Interception applications, or environments. Are primarily attacks against
confidentiality
, attacks that make your assets unusable or unavailable to you
Interruption temporarily or permanently. DoS attack on a mail server, for
example. May also affect integrity
attacks involve tampering with our asset. Such attacks might
Modification primarily be considered an integrity attack but could also
represent an availability attack.
attacks involve generating data, processes, communications, or
other similar activities with a system. Fabrication attacks primarily
Fabrication
affect integrity but could be considered an availability attack as
well.
is the likelihood that an event will occur. To have risk there must
Risk be a
threat and vulnerability.
are any events being man-made, natural or environmental that
Threats
could cause damage to assets.
are a weakness that a threat event or the threat agent can take
Vulnerabilities
advantage of.
takes into account the value of the asset being threatened and
Impact
uses it to calculate risk
Identify assets, identify threats, assess vulnerabilities, assess risks,
Risk Management Process
mitigate risks
Defense in Depth Using multiple layers of security to defend your assets.
are the ways we protect assets. Three different types: physical,
Controls
logical, administrative
environment; physical items that protect assets think locks, doors,
Physical Controls
guards, and, fences or environmental factors (time)
Sometimes called technical controls, these protect the systems,
Logical Controls networks, and environments that process, transmit, and store our
data
based on laws, rules, policies, and procedures, guidelines, and
other items that are "paper" in nature. They are the policies that
Administrative Controls
organizations create for governance. For example, acceptable
use and email use policies.
phase of incident response consists of all of the activities that we
Preparation can perform, in advance of the incident itself, in order to better
enable us to handle it.
1. Preparation
2. Detection and Analysis (Identification)
3. Containment
Incident Response Process
4. Eradication
5. Recovery
6. Post-incident activity: document/Lessons learned
where the action begins to happen in our incident response
process. In this phase, we will detect the occurrence of an issue
Detection & Analysis
and decide whether or not it is actually an incident, so that we
can respond appropriately to it.
WGU C836 FUNDAMENTALS OF
INFORMATION SECURITY OA 2025 EXAM
PREP/COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED
VERIFIED ANSWERS (100% CORRECT
ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
Save
Students also studied
Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing N... Fundamentals of Nursing Chapter 7 ... Smart Serve Questio
Teacher 50 terms Teacher 10 terms 110 terms
winnie_wambui1 Preview Catherine_wanjiru89 Preview Preview
Protecting an organization's information and information systems
Information Security from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption,
modification, or destruction.
Requirements that are set forth by laws and
Compliance
industry regulations.
CIA Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
Refers to our ability to protect our data from those who are not
Confidentiality
authorized to use/view it
The ability to prevent people from changing your data in an
Integrity
unauthorized or undesirable manner
Availability Refers to the ability to access our data when we need it
refers to the physical disposition of the media on which the data
Possession/Control is stored. (tape examples where some are encrypted and some
are not)
whether you've attributed the data in question to the proper
Authenticity owner or creator. (altered email that says it's from one person
when it's not - violation of the authenticity of the email)
Utility refers to how useful the data is to you.
interception, interruption, modification, and
Attacks
fabrication
attacks that allow unauthorized users to access your data,
Interception applications, or environments. Are primarily attacks against
confidentiality
, attacks that make your assets unusable or unavailable to you
Interruption temporarily or permanently. DoS attack on a mail server, for
example. May also affect integrity
attacks involve tampering with our asset. Such attacks might
Modification primarily be considered an integrity attack but could also
represent an availability attack.
attacks involve generating data, processes, communications, or
other similar activities with a system. Fabrication attacks primarily
Fabrication
affect integrity but could be considered an availability attack as
well.
is the likelihood that an event will occur. To have risk there must
Risk be a
threat and vulnerability.
are any events being man-made, natural or environmental that
Threats
could cause damage to assets.
are a weakness that a threat event or the threat agent can take
Vulnerabilities
advantage of.
takes into account the value of the asset being threatened and
Impact
uses it to calculate risk
Identify assets, identify threats, assess vulnerabilities, assess risks,
Risk Management Process
mitigate risks
Defense in Depth Using multiple layers of security to defend your assets.
are the ways we protect assets. Three different types: physical,
Controls
logical, administrative
environment; physical items that protect assets think locks, doors,
Physical Controls
guards, and, fences or environmental factors (time)
Sometimes called technical controls, these protect the systems,
Logical Controls networks, and environments that process, transmit, and store our
data
based on laws, rules, policies, and procedures, guidelines, and
other items that are "paper" in nature. They are the policies that
Administrative Controls
organizations create for governance. For example, acceptable
use and email use policies.
phase of incident response consists of all of the activities that we
Preparation can perform, in advance of the incident itself, in order to better
enable us to handle it.
1. Preparation
2. Detection and Analysis (Identification)
3. Containment
Incident Response Process
4. Eradication
5. Recovery
6. Post-incident activity: document/Lessons learned
where the action begins to happen in our incident response
process. In this phase, we will detect the occurrence of an issue
Detection & Analysis
and decide whether or not it is actually an incident, so that we
can respond appropriately to it.
