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    Cyber Security Week-1 Sample Questions and Answers

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    This document provides information about a cyber security course being taught in Week 1. The course is titled "Cyber Security" and is coordinated by Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi. Week 1 will cover an introduction to cyber security, including fundamentals of cyber space, information systems, security principles, and why cyber security is important. It will also discuss cyber security challenges. The document includes sample questions and answers that may be used in the course, covering topics like the importance of cyberspace, features that make it complex, hacker activities and examples, common ways computers are affected, and administrative responsibilities for protecting systems.

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    This document provides information about a cyber security course being taught in Week 1. The course is titled "Cyber Security" and is coordinated by Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi. Week 1 will cover an introduction to cyber security, including fundamentals of cyber space, information systems, security principles, and why cyber security is important. It will also discuss cyber security challenges. The document includes sample questions and answers that may be used in the course, covering topics like the importance of cyberspace, features that make it complex, hacker activities and examples, common ways computers are affected, and administrative responsibilities for protecting systems.

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    This document provides information about a cyber security course being taught in Week 1. The course is titled "Cyber Security" and is coordinated by Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi. Week 1 will cover an introduction to cyber security, including fundamentals of cyber space, information systems, security principles, and why cyber security is important. It will also discuss cyber security challenges. The document includes sample questions and answers that may be used in the course, covering topics like the importance of cyberspace, features that make it complex, hacker activities and examples, common ways computers are affected, and administrative responsibilities for protecting systems.

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    Cyber Security Week-1 Sample Questions and Answers

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    This document provides information about a cyber security course being taught in Week 1. The course is titled "Cyber Security" and is coordinated by Dr. Padmavathi Ganapathi. Week 1 will cover an introduction to cyber security, including fundamentals of cyber space, information systems, security principles, and why cyber security is important. It will also discuss cyber security challenges. The document includes sample questions and answers that may be used in the course, covering topics like the importance of cyberspace, features that make it complex, hacker activities and examples, common ways computers are affected, and administrative responsibilities for protecting systems.

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    Course Title: Cyber Security

    Course C0-Ordinator: Dr Padmavathi Ganapathi


    Week 1: Introduction to Cyber Security: Fundamentals of Cyber Space-
    Information Systems-Security Principles - Why Cyber Security is important?-
    Cyber security Challenges.

    Sample Questions and Answers

    1. Why Cyberspace is important in today’s era?


    To make Internet services to be available to users freely and fairly at any time and place,
    Cyberspace is used as a levelling medium. It provides equal opportunities for every users
    to reap its benefits. Cyberspace provides free flow of information and knowledge across
    Internet. Since, it is a virtual space it connects various users across different locations
    supporting digital interaction and Information exchange.
    2. Which feature of the Cyberspace makes it very important as well as complex?
    Why?
    Interconnecting various people over the virtual cyberspace for entertainment and social
    networking purposes is the most important feature of cyberspace. But at the same time,
    this interconnection through the virtual medium, makes it complex enabling hackers to
    access the platform and carry out unintentional activities. Some of the unintentional
    activities carried out are spamming, theft of confidential or sensitive information and other
    security breaches and threats.
    3. List any one activity or operation mechanism of a Hacker with an example.
    Hackers are generally unauthorized users who invade into the system through
    vulnerabilities or weak points. They make use of large diverse tools like a malicious logic
    like virus or malware through some attachments and wait for the victims to open the
    attachments. Since then a user clicks on the attachment link the hackers implant virus
    that may cause downloading of inappropriate applications, unwanted operations or
    destruction of the victim computer.
    4. Identify one common way your computer has been affected. Explain the
    mechanism.

    CYBER SECURITY Week-1 Sample Questions and Answers


    Opening an email from unknown resources is one of the most common way a system can
    be affected. If a user unknowingly clicks on the link or opens an email from unknown
    resources, it paves way to security loop holes of the system. This in turn, opens an entry
    point for viruses and malwares thereby making computers to malfunction, cause damages
    to the local data present in it or destroy the system entities. Some example includes
    stealing of passwords, personal information or identity, credit card number, social security
    number, etc.
    5. Explain the administrative level responsibilities of protecting a system and the
    consequences of a poor administrative mechanism.
    Unauthorized administrators are high security risk. An unauthorized administrator
    launches numerous attacks that includes malicious software on every client computer.
    They also enable remote access tools to configure and gain system access without the
    intended user’s permission. An administrative level responsibility of protecting the system
    includes configuration against the DDoS attacks and running network monitoring tools to
    prevent unauthorized packet sniffing.

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