This unit discusses basic concepts in cybersecurity including: application security, common hacking techniques, and antivirus software.
Now Studying: Cybersecurity Principles
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Core Training Activities
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Multiple Choice Activity
Select the best match between unit terms and their definitions.
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Listening Comprehension Activity
Listen to short audio clips in English and then spell them correctly.
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Spelling and Recognition
Identify and spell a vocabulary term correctly given only the definition.
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Vocabulary Builder Activity
Students will learn the following key terms and phrases:
Biometric authentication
Botnet
Brute force attack
Chief Information Security Officer
Compromise
Credentials
Cross-site request forgery
Cybersecurity specialist
Data breach
Exploit
Joe job
Multi-factor authentication
Piggybacking
Ransomware
Replay attack
Salami shaving
Script kiddie
Spoofing
Tailgating
Trojan horse
Worm
Zero-day
Improve your reading comprehension and vocabulary in context with our interactive reader.
Scene: It is 8:12AM in the SOC war room. Overnight, malware alerts have spiked sharply. A major client portal is timing out for some users in Europe.
CISO:
Good morning soldier! Bring me up to speed on the incident.
SOC Analyst:
Again, I am not really a soldier, but at 02:41 AM last night, our intrusion detection system flagged anomalous lateral movement from…
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Reading Comprehension Quiz
Test your understanding of the reading material with a quick comprehension quiz.
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Speaking Practice Activity
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Bots are constantly scanning the Internet looking for websites vulnerable to CSRF exploits so they can spam, change passwords, or even transfer funds.
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Stuxnet was a computer worm that used multiple zero-day exploits to infiltrate Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities and sabotage their centrifuges.
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As many popular Internet protocols are still vulnerable to spoofing attacks, the general rule of programming is still: "trust nothing".
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Writing Practice Activity
Improve your writing skills with guided essay questions and professional correction.
- Describe a time when your network or computer was attacked by malware. Who was the bad actor? Where did the attack originate from? How did you resolve the issue?
- Who was behaving more realistically, The SOC Analyst or the CISO? Was the SOC Analyst really a soldier? What did the narrator mean when she said, "Well, that was a bit much"? Do you agree with the narrator?
