What the Security Is

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What the Security Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the lesson part of the Cyber Security Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to CNM Cabin. This lesson belongs to the Introduction to CNM Cyber session of the CNM Cyber Orientation.


Content

The predecessor lectio is What Pipeline Is.

Key terms

Cyber-security. The practice and a set of concepts based on that practice that are designed to protect computers, data, and networks from potential attacks or unauthorized access.

Script

The CNM Cyber Team distinguishes two branches of the security governance.
The policy branch can be compared with the legislative branch of the government. It defines policies such as privacy policy, backup policy, user access policy, sensitive data management policy, human resource management policy and some others that create sets of rules to protect both the systems and the data.


sensitive user data from unwelcome use conducted by those users who are authorized to access that data.

The second is cyber-security, which is protecting computers, data, and networks from potential attacks or unauthorized access.
To protect web operations of CNM Cyber, all of its website are secured with SSL certificate. So, when you communicate with the Cyber on the Internet, all of the communications are encrypted and practically impossible to capture.
The CNM Cyber Team is constantly applying new security patches and following security recommendations to protect the software systems from end-user applications and up to computing servers of the Cyber.
The access to the highest risk areas such as administrative projects of CNM Lab is protected by the public key infrastructure (PKI). This technology is the most secure from all that are available on the market.

User Data in Cyber is the successor lectio.

Questions

Lectio quiz

The answer is recorded for the lectio completion purpose:
  • Would you be interested in working on cyber-security of CNM Cyber? --Yes/No/I'm not sure/Let me think/Let's move on

Placement entrance exam