1. List and assess at least three kinds of damage a company could suffer when the integrity of a program or company data are compromised. (A description of damage, not a definition of data integrity, is required.)
2. Suppose you have a high capacity network connection coming into your home, and you also have a wireless network access point. Also, suppose you do not use the full capacity of your network connection. List and assess four reasons why you might still want to prevent an outsider obtaining free network access by intruding into your wireless network.
3. What is the plaintext? What cipher was used? Assess whether this would be good for today's security programs. If not, what would be good to use and why?
4. You have been asked to give a presentation to a law school class on digital crime. After the presentation, a student asks why so few people are actually prosecuted for computer crime when these crimes seem to be happening all the time. Give a five-point outline of your response to this question. Assess the impact on preventing crimes from your perspective given these issues.
5. List five controls that could be used to maintain data availability in a networked environment.
6. Are ethics a matter of absolute right and wrong or are they changeable? Can an ethical person consider something to be wrong and then, later, consider that same thing to be right while still being ethical? Explain your reasoning.
7. Which of the following statements is true?
- Hardware is best protected by copyright.
- Web content is best protected by a patent.
- Uniform resource locators are best protected by a trademark.
- Firmware code is best protected by copyright.
- Operating systems are best protected by a patent.
8. Assess why technical means to assure data confidentiality depend upon trust.