Chapter Summary

In this chapter, we covered many concepts that will take you through the rest of the book. By covering general concepts of computer security, we have given you a foundation upon which you can build a more detailed understanding of security and its many facets.

KEY TERMS

  • Accounting

  • Auditing

  • Authentication

  • Authorization

  • Back door

  • Biometrics

  • Certificate

  • Certificate authority

  • CHAP

  • Denial of service and distributed denial of service (DoS/DDoS)

  • Discretionary access control (DAC)

  • Kerberos

  • Logic bomb

  • Mandatory access control (MAC)

  • Man-in-the-middle

  • Multifactor authentication

  • Mutual authentication

  • Replay

  • Role-based access control (RBAC)

  • Social engineering

  • Spoofing

  • TCP/IP hijacking

  • Token

  • Trojan horse

  • Virus

  • Worm

In the first section, you learned basic terminology. ...

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