Security Awareness Quizzes Online & Trivia

You may have seen “restricted data” and “confidential data” but never knew the difference. These two are very important to know so you can protect yours as well as others’ personal information. When you say Restricted Data, it contains super sensitive data such as the person’s driver’s license number, credit card numbers, or social security numbers. Confidential Data is less sensitive than restricted data but still needs protection from unauthorized access. Some information that falls in this category is the birth date, home address, or student records. To protect your personal data from identity theft or misuse, do not post the said information online as it can spread fast to millions of people worldwide.

1. Never email personal information2 Report the phishing email to your organization.

The correct answer to this question is D, all of the above. Information security policies are a plan to keep an organization's date and network protected from security threats. The policy is used to analyze activity that seems suspicious, as well as from potiential threats and breaches. Information security policies and procedures include how employees log in, how they access the building, how they are trained, and how there workstations are. This policy helps protect individuals from becoming victims and allows for more usuage of applications because of the reduced amount of incidents. It also provides them a clear understanding of what to do if a breach happens. The guide should be clear and allow the user to take responsibility. Lastly, it helps them understand the levels of security. 46% of breaches happen by uninformed employees. If they are aware of potential threats, it can help them prevent the threat from occuring.

Report the phishing email to the legitimate company or organization that has been spoofed

It's option E. Social engineering. In computer security, Social Engineering describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction. It often involves tricking people into breaking their own security procedures. Basically, it's a term that is used for a wide range of malicious and suspicious activities obtained through human interactions. Some of the examples of social engineering are phishing, pretexting, Vishing etc.

If you receive an email from someone you don’t recognize that has an attachment, you should not open it. In fact, you should delete it immediately, without opening it or opening the attachment. Opening an email like this could mean a virus is being sent or a hacking attempt is being made. This is a common thing that these people do. If you blindly open attachments, you could be putting yourself at risk. The good news is that most email systems have a spam folder, and that’s where a lot of these kinds of emails end up. Spam folders usually empty themselves at a set rate every month. Maybe once every thirty days, whether or not you have opened them.

In this day and time we can never be too careful when opening an E-mail from a business or person that we do not know. Of course, it’s always a good idea to hover over the sender when in doubt to see exactly who is sending the E-mail. Stealing a person’s identity has become more and more common these days. This idea of sending E-mails in order to get a person’s personal information to use to purchase medicine, for instance, or steal from that person’s bank account is called “phishing.” Both pharmacies and banks have their systems of security to protect the customer and the pharmacy and bank from abuse. People suffer from the process of recovering their bank funds and establishing their credit once again. One can never be too careful these days.

(B) Going behind somebody through the access doors without using own access card

Social engineering is not new. Authoritarian governments have used it for years by collecting information that is sensitive through illegal means by stealing identity from their victims and spying to obtain information to help with their efforts to keep in government. Today we hear about Russia trying to influence our elections through this means. How can you prevent social engineering attacks? Well, one way is to refuse to give out computer or network information. Another is to not complete confidential company tasks in an unsecure setting. A third way is to not give out personal identifiable information. It is our duty at work to strive to keep personal, sensitive information out of the hands of anyone who might seek to use social engineering for profit in any way.

The answer is all of the above. Spyware includes cookies and trojans. When spyware is used for malicious purposes, it’s presence is typically hidden from the user and can be difficult to detect. Spyware installs itself on a computer by deceiving the user or by exploiting software vulnerabilities. A computer virus is a type of malicious software that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its code. A security hacker is someone who looks to breach defenses and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or network.

A firewall is similar to the way the word sounds. It acts as a wall inside the computer. In the real word, a firewall would be a strong wall made from materials in a building or house that fireproofs that area. Fire can’t penetrate that wall, so it makes it safer to live in that house. On the other hand, a computer also may have a protective device in the form of a firewall. This is involved in the network which monitors and observes what messages and other things are allowed into the computer through the network. It also does the opposite because it monitors and observes what messages and other things leave the computer. The firewall protection is necessary today due to all of the computer viruses coming through.

The correct answer to this question is A, email. Emails are electronic messages sent from one computer user to other recipients. They are sent through a network. This is the most common way viruses are transmitted. There are spoof emails. These emails are made to look real, but contain a link or attatchment, which has a virus on it. If the attatchment or link is clicked, the virus will then go onto the computer. Email viruses can also be sent through ransomware, in which the victims data is encrypted and a fee is demanded for it to be restored.