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Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals

You're reading from   Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals Learn how you can leverage encryption to better secure your organization's data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644352
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Securing Our Data
2. Chapter 1: Protecting Data in Motion or at Rest FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Ciphers 4. Chapter 3: Evaluating Network Attacks 5. Section 2: Understanding Cryptographic Techniques
6. Chapter 4: Introducing Symmetric Encryption 7. Chapter 5: Dissecting Asymmetric Encryption 8. Chapter 6: Examining Hash Algorithms 9. Section 3: Applying Cryptography in Today's World
10. Chapter 7: Adhering to Standards 11. Chapter 8: Using a Public Key Infrastructure 12. Chapter 9: Exploring IPsec and TLS 13. Chapter 10: Protecting Cryptographic Techniques 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

Now it's time to check your knowledge. Select the best response, and then check your answers, which can be found in the Assessment section at the end of the book.

  1. _____ cache poisoning sends bogus records to a Domain Name System resolver. As a result, when a victim requests an IP address for a website, the server will send the wrong IP address.

    a. ARP

    b. DNS

    c. WEP

    d. MAC

  2. _____ spoofing will transmit spoofed ARP messages out on the local area network that falsely reports a malicious actor's MAC as being the victim's address.

    a. ARP

    b. DNS

    c. WEP

    d. MAC

  3. WEP is a stream cipher that uses a _____ initialization vector (IV) or a 'dummy block' to start the key stream generator.

    a. 24-bytes

    b. 36-bits

    c. 8-bytes

    d. 24-bits

  4. _____ was an extension to the Firefox browser that provided an easy way to launch an SSL strip attack.

    a. WEP

    b. Mozilla

    c. Firesheep

    d. Cipher hack

  5. A code signing _____ creates a digital signature to validate device drivers...
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