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Information Security

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Information security involves protecting computer systems and data from unauthorized access, cyber threats, and damage. It is a core part of the computer knowledge section in various banking and government exams. Practicing these concepts helps in understanding digital signatures, network security, and access control effectively.

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Information Security Questions

Multiple choice

Which of the following security mechanisms is a collection of security protocols and format allowing consumers secure usage in the present credit card payment infrastructure over an exposed network, like the internet?

  1. Stateful inspection firewall

  2. Secure electronic transaction

  3. Transport layer security

  4. Message authentication code

  5. Sender authentication
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

This security mechanism is a collection of security protocols and format allowing consumers secure usage in the present credit card payment infrastructure over an exposed network, like the internet.

Multiple choice

Which of the following security techniques is an application program that can complement the work of a conventional firewall by screening the kind of data, a single computer will accept?

  1. Transport layer security

  2. ProtectedData

  3. Message integrity check

  4. Personal firewall

  5. Stateful inspection firewall
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This security technique is an application program can complement the work of a conventional firewall by screening the kind of data, a single computer will accept.

Multiple choice

In which of the following security policies, every fragment of data and information is categorized meticulously at a specific sensitivity level which typically range from unclassified, classified, etc.

  1. Ease of use

  2. Lattice model of access security

  3. Commercial security policy

  4. Security policy

  5. Military security policy
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

In this security policy, every fragment of data and information is categorized meticulously at a specific sensitivity level which typically ranges from unclassified, classified, etc.

Multiple choice

Which of the following security features of trusted operating system, as its name implies, leaves a certain amount of access control to the discretion of the object's owner?

  1. Ease of use

  2. Complete mediation

  3. Identification and authentication

  4. Mandatory access control

  5. Discretionary access control
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

This security feature of trusted operating system as its name implies, leaves a certain amount of access control to the discretion of the object's owner.

Multiple choice

In which of the following security models, we would want to fabricate a model to embody variety of sensitivities and to portray the need to isolate subjects strictly from objects?

  1. Least privilege

  2. Security policy

  3. Bell-La padula confidentiality model

  4. Multilevel security model

  5. Lattice model of access security
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

In this model, we would want to fabricate a model to embody variety of sensitivities and to portray the need to isolate subjects strictly from objects.

Multiple choice

Which of the security standards performs some or all of the actions such as hash of the message, sign the hash by encrypting it with the sender's private key for the message integrity and authenticity etc?

  1. Pretty good privacy

  2. The certificate scheme

  3. DEK-Info

  4. Sender authenticity

  5. Stateful inspection firewall
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This security standard performs some or all of the following actions such as hash of the message, sign the hash by encrypting it with the sender's private key for message integrity and authenticity, etc.