Information Security: Definitions
Example: Creating an email account, Joe Smith decided to set his account password to: '12345'.
Fun Class Activity: Match the items below to the concepts (one concept per item:)
Items
| 1 | Someone might guess the password and break into Joe's account. |
| 2 | Programming the email server to accept only strong passwords. |
| 3 | A password too short and too easy to guess. |
| 4 | Mal Waring, a hacker, guesses Joe's password and breaks in. |
| 5 | A program running password combinations against Joe's password to break it. |
Concepts
| A | a vulnerability |
| B | a threat |
| C | an attack |
| D | an exploit |
| E | a control |
These notes by Miriam Briskman are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 and based on sources.