Security+ Question of the Week: Dismiss Alarms
Which element of assessment or monitoring causes the security staff to discount the value of alarms?
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7 Obvious Security Precautions Companies Forget to Take
It seems that even with all the examples of breaches and compromises caused by the lack of company security across the last two decades, organizations continue to move forward with a “same as it ever was” mentality. Organizations aren’t learning from others’ mistakes.
Read moreSecurity+ Question of the Week: Definition of a Threat
What is the definition of a threat in the context of risk management?
Read moreSecurity+ Question of the Week: Session Hijack
Which of the following typically occurs just before a session is hijacked?
Read moreSecurity+ Question of the Week: Suspicious Location-Based Messages
On your commute to work each day, you notice that you receive several suspicious messages to your phone. The messages are very similar, appearing on your phone when you drive by a certain building on your regular route to work. In order to test a theory, you place your phone in airplane mode then re‐enable just the 3G/4G feature. After several days of driving past the same location, you do not receive any additional messages. What is the likely cause of these messages?
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