Cybersecurity Terms

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Across
  1. 3. The revealing of personal details online in order to harass, intimidate, or threaten
  2. 4. Protecting computer systems, networks, and data from digital attacks
  3. 7. Any information that can be identified as belonging to a specific person, or a combination of information that can be used to identify a single individual
  4. 10. Someone that hacks people without their consent, usually for good or in accordance with a moral code. They typically are socially or politically motivated
  5. 11. An individual who uses computers, networking or other skills to overcome a technical problem
  6. 12. Someone who uses their skills to break into protected system and networks to test and assess their security, providing aid to the party who they hacked, and doing so under their approval
  7. 13. A term that means a system was accessed by someone not authorized to access it. In some cases, digital information was removed from the system or damaged, but this is not always true
  8. 15. Using the internet to threaten, harass, embarrass, or otherwise harm an individual, mimicking the properties of regular bullying
Down
  1. 1. A connected group of digital devices, servers, and communication paths that transmit data and act as a primary attack surface requiring defense against unauthorized access
  2. 2. The process of converting readable data into an unreadable, scrambled format using a mathematical algorithm and a cryptographic key
  3. 5. A person in charge of maintaining a network, creating user accounts, assigning users rights to access certain data or programs, and making sure that users are able to access the data when they need it.
  4. 6. Information stored digitally
  5. 8. A special piece of software that is designed to store digital information in a structured way, so that any specific piece of data can be quickly accessed
  6. 9. Someone who violates computer security for personal gain, or for pure maliciousness
  7. 14. A flaw in a computer system, operating system, or software that leads to it being more easily accessed or manipulated by malicious actors than it was intended to be