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Q. An IDS follows a two-step process consisting of a passive component and an active component. Which of the following is part of the active component?

Q. This is an attack on a computer system that takes advantage of a particular vulnerability that the system offers to intruders.

Q. This electronic "credit card" establishes a user's credentials when doing business or other transactions on the Web and is issued by a certification authority.

Q. A false positive can be defined as…

Q. This is an encryption/decryption key known only to the party or parties that exchange secret messages.

Q. This is the encryption algorithm that will begin to supplant the Data Encryption Standard (DES) - and later Triple DES - over the next few years as the new standard encryption algorithm.

Q. This is a trial and error method used to decode encrypted data through exhaustive effort rather than employing intellectual strategies.

Q. The developers of an operating system or vendor application might issue this to prevent intruders from taking advantage of a weakness in their programming.

Q. This is is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination.

Q. This type of attack may cause additional damage by sending data containing codes designed to trigger specific actions - for example, changing data or disclosing confidential information.