Card 121
Question
iSCSI
Answer
Internet Small Computer System Interface.
A lower-cost alternative to traditional SANs.
It supports sending traditional SCSI commands over an IP network.
Security+ Abkürzungen (CompTIA) mit Erklärungen
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Card 122
Question
ISP
Answer
Internet Service Provider.
A company that provides Internet access to customers.
Card 123
Question
ISSO
Answer
Information Systems Security Officer.
A job role within an organization focused on
information security.
Card 124
Question
IT
Answer
Information technology.
Computer systems and networks used within organizations.
Card 125
Question
ITCP
Answer
IT contingency plan.
Part of risk management.
Plan to ensure that IT resources remain
available after a security incident, outage, or disaster.
Card 126
Question
IV
Answer
Initialization vector.
An IV provides randomization of encryption keys to help ensure that keys are not reused.
WEP was susceptible to IV attacks because it used relatively small IVs.
In an IV attack, the attacker uses packet injection, increasing the number of packets to analyze, and discovers the encryption key.
Card 127
Question
JBOD
Answer
Just a Bunch of Disks.
Disks installed on a computer but not as a RAID.
Card 128
Question
KDC
Answer
Key Distribution Center.
Also known as TGT server.
Part of the Kerberos protocol used for
network authentication.
The KDC issues timestamped tickets that expire.
Card 129
Question
L2TP
Answer
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol.
Tunneling protocol used with VPNs.
L2TP is commonly used with IPsec (L2TP/IPsec).
L2TP uses UDP port 1701.
Card 130
Question
LAN
Answer
Local area network.
Group of hosts connected within a network.
Card 131
Question
LANMAN
Answer
Local area network manager.
Older authentication protocol used to provide backward compatibility to Windows 9x clients.
LANMAN passwords are easily cracked due to how they are stored.
Card 132
Question
LDAP
Answer
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Language used to communicate with directories such as Microsoft Active Directory.
Identifies objects with query strings using codes such as CN=Users and DC=GetCertifiedGetAhead.
LDAP uses TCP port 389.
Secure LDAP encrypts transmissions with SSL or TLS over TCP port 636.
LDAP injection attacks attempt to access or
modify data in directory service databases.
Card 133
Question
LEAP
Answer
Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol.
A modified version of the Challenge
Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) created by Cisco.
LEAP does not require a digital certificate and Cisco now recommends using stronger protocols such as EAP-TLS.
Card 134
Question
LSO
Answer
Local shared objects or locally shared objects.
A Flash cookie created by Adobe Flash
player.
Card 135
Question
MaaS
Answer
Monitoring as a Service or Management as a Service.
Allows an organization to outsource
the management and monitoring of IT resources.
Card 136
Question
MAC (Refers to ACL)
Answer
Mandatory access control.
Access control model that uses sensitivity labels assigned to objects (files and folders) and subjects (users).
MAC restricts access based on a need-to-know.
Card 137
Question
MAC address
Answer
Media access control address
A 48-bit address used to identify network interface cards.
It is also called a hardware address or a physical address, and is commonly displayed as six pairs of hexadecimal characters.
Port security on a switch or an AP can limit access using MAC filtering.
Card 138
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MAC (code)
Answer
Message authentication code.
Method used to provide integrity for messages.
A MAC uses a secret key to encrypt the hash.
HMAC is a commonly used version.
Card 139
Question
MAN
Answer
Metropolitan area network.
A computer network that spans a metropolitan area such as a city or a large campus.
Card 140
Question
MBR
Answer
Master Boot Record.
An area on a hard disk in its first sector.
When the BIOS boots a system, it looks at the MBR for instructions and information on how to boot the disk and load the
operating system.
Some malware tries to hide here.
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