Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide

Chapter 19

Attacks and Threats

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

• 6. Security

  • 6.2. Describe foundational security concepts.

    Confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA); authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); Multifactor Authentication (MFA); encryption, certificates, and password complexity; identity stores/databases (Active Directory); threats and vulnerabilities; spam, phishing, malware, and denial of service

When it comes to security, most people believe two things:

I am not a target. I do not have anything of real value or enough influence to be a target of cybercrime. My organization does not have enough value to be a target of cybercrime.

I am smart enough not to be taken in.

The truth is more complex. ...