A passive vulnerability scanner is one that initiates traffic on the network in order to determine security holes.

Alarm events that are accurate and noteworthy but do not pose significant threats to information security are called noise.

A ________ system is designed to work in areas where electrical equipment is used. Instead of containing water, the system contains pressurized air.

Hash algorithms are public functions that create a message digest by converting variable-length messages into a single fixed-length value.

A log file monitor is similar to an NIDPS.

Fire detection systems fall into two general categories: manual and electrical.

________ involves a wide variety of computing sites outside the organization’s primary facility and includes all forms of telecommuting.

An X.509 v3 certificate binds a ________, which uniquely identifies a certificate entity, to a user’s public key.

Adopted by NIST in 1976 as a federal standard, DES uses a 64-bit block size and key.

A partially distributed IDPS control strategy combines the best of other IDPS strategies.