Question 1
What is a “honeypot”? Honeypot can be viewed as a technique or a specifically designed computer system intended to find out hackers or trap them and also to identify new techniques used for hacking. It is also designed to identify any nasty undertakings happening in internet.
Question 2
What is “blackholing”? Blackholing can be considered as an internet security technique against spam. It’s performed by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) which blocks the packets coming from certain domain or address thereby can prevent any types of malware and attacks and can limit the volume of spam inflowing to the system.
Question 3
What is “air-gap security”? Air-gap security can be viewed as security measure for both …show more content…
National Security Agency (NSA) has started the PRISM program post the incident of 9/11 to ensure more security. Through this program US government collects private information about users of famous Internet Services like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook etc. Through PRISM the data will be collected directly from the servers of these Internet Services.
Question 8
In 2001 Bruce Schneier said “Complexity is the enemy of security”. Explain what he meant. Bruce Schneier is mentioning about the complexity in the software’s made which is really very complex which gives its developers a very hard time to identify the loopholes associated with it thereby making the software’s more vulnerable to external attacks and which ultimately compromises on the overall security of the end product.
Question 9
Explain the term “Defence in depth”. Defence in depth is more of a military concept where multiple layers of security will be implemented which makes it more difficult for the attackers to penetrate through the layers and completely conquer the system. This implements accurate use of people, process and technology and will primarily focus on delaying the attacks rather than preventing