Security Reading (Chapter 10)

Directions

For this assignment, you will read the security chapter from Business Data Communications and Networking.

Assignment

This chapter has several sections including:
Types of Security Threats
Network Controls
Risk Assessment
Encryption
User Authentication
Preventing Social Engineering

Deliverable

For your deliverable, read the 'Selected Key Terms' listed below. Each of these terms was choosen from the 'Key Terms' listing at the end of the textbook's security chapter. Make a table that contains these terms and their related descriptions.

Post your table to your online portfolio. Name the link going to this Assignment 'Security Reading.'

Selected Key Terms

asset authentication
availability
confidentiality
integrity
risk
biometric system
brute-force attack
denial-of-service (DoS) attack
IP spoofing
business continuity
disaster recovery
packet-level firewall
Cryptography
symmetric
key
key management
asymmetric encryption
RSA
public & private key
public key infrastructure (PKI)
certificate authority (CA)
symmetric encryption
Data Encryption Standard (DES)
triple DES (3DES)
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Kerberos
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
IP Security Protocol (IPSec)
IPSec tunnel mode

Review Questions
Note that each Chapter includes questions. Some of the questions that it would be prudent to know from Chapter Ten include:
Question 7, 10, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 39, 41