What Is Information Security

question 47

Multiple Choice

What is information security?

• A) A broad term encompassing the protection of information from accidental or intentional misuse by persons inside or outside an organization
• B) A special class of adware that collects data about the user and transmits it over the Internet without the user's knowledge or permission
• C) A computer attack where an attacker accesses a wireless computer network, intercepts data, uses network services, and/or sends attack instructions without entering the office or organization that owns the network
• D) Software that while purporting to serve some useful function and often fulfilling that function also allows Internet advertisers to display advertisements without the consent of the computer user

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Definitions:

Modern American

Pertaining to the contemporary cultural, social, and economic aspects and trends within the United States.

Operant Response Rates

The frequency at which an organism performs a behavior in response to a given operant conditioning scenario.

Operant Conditioning

An instructional process that modifies the vigor of behaviors by means of rewards or sanctions.

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, a consequence applied to an organism's environment that increases the likelihood of a preceding response being repeated in the future.