Homework 1
BFOR200
1. False
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False
6. False, this more accurately describes integrity.
7. False, people have been keeping secrets and practicing information security since
Egyptian times.
8. A
9. C
10. B
11. B
12. A
13. Confidentiality
14. Two malicious threats would be DDos and ransomware. Two non-malicious threats
would be earthquakes and power outages.
15. Ecommerce is an activity that is only possible because of the internet, some threats that
would be faced are potential phishing attempts to gain company information and DDos
attacks to their website. They can install software to filter and block unauthorized
messages from being sent into their emails and have companies like cloud flare protect
their website from attacks.
16.
Threat
Vulnerability
Impact
Risk Level
Phone theft
Distracted, poor
placement of
device, poor
awareness of
surroundings
Phone is gone,
potential data
breach if they
know password
medium
Data skimming
Connecting to
unprotected WiFi.
Could potentially
have data stolen
by unprotected
network
medium
Credit card
information loss
Using swiping as
form of payment,
clear exposure of
credit card
information
Credit card
information stolen
medium
Control
Stay aware of
your
surroundings. A
privacy screen
protector to
eliminate people
from seeing
passwords.
Stay on protected
networks, use
VPN, use data
while not at home.
Use tap and insert
to pay where
possible, don’t
blatantly show
credit card
information in
public