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Stevens Institute of Technology Cybersecurity Questionnaire

 

Part 1: Answer each these questions in a paragraph with at least five sentences: Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.

1. Should society help workers dislocated when technology, like the Internet, elimlnates their jobs in a process called ‘Creative Destruction‘?

2. are we working more and earning less?

3. Would you want a telecommuting job? Why or why not?

4. Does the gig economy appeal to you? Why or why not?

5. How is an employee differentiated from a contracter under US law?

6. Why have some municipalities put restrictions on innovations in the sharing economy and in on-demand services?

7. What has been the effect on the US economy of outsourcing (or offshoring) technical and professional jobs?

8. How much monitoring of employee activities at work is appropriate?

9. Should an employer be able to discipline or terminate an employee for on-line behavior in his/her own time?

10. What is the relationship betwee BYOD (bring your own device) and shadow IT.

11. What is cyberloafing?

Part 2: Complete your answers in 3-4 sentences. Include the question and number your responses accordingly. Provide a citation for each answer.

10.1 What are three broad mechanisms that malware can use to propagate?

10.2 What are four broad categories of payloads that malware may carry?

10.3 What are typical phases of operation of a virus or worm?

10.4 What mechanisms can a virus use to conceal itself?

10.5 What is the difference between machine-executable and macro viruses?

10.6 What means can a worm use to access remote systems to propagate?

10.7 What is a “drive-by-download” and how does it differ from a worm?

10.8 What is a “logic bomb”?

10.9 Differentiate among the following: a backdoor, a bot, a keylogger, spyware, and a rootkit? Can they all be present in the same malware?

10.10 List some of the different levels in a system that a rootkit may use.

10.11 Describe some malware countermeasure elements.

10.12 List three places malware mitigation mechanisms may be located.

10.13 Briefly describe the four generations of antivirus software.

10.14 How does behavior-blocking software work?

10.15 What is a distributed denial-of-service system?