Security Awareness Puzzle 2015

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  1. 3. Engineering The art of tricking or manipulating people into providing information that they normally would not provide.
  2. 6. Passwords should be _________ every 3-4 months.
  3. 7. Theft The fraudulent acquisition and use of a person's private identifying information, usually for financial gain.
  4. 9. Never share your _________ with another person.
  5. 11. A password is stronger by using a combination of both upper and lower case ___________.
  6. 12. A software that is designed to detect and destroy computer viruses.
  7. 14. Applied to data to protect it from unauthorized use in case of theft or loss.
  8. 16. Use __________ passwords for the various accounts that you may have.
  9. 19. Also known as malicious software; any program or file that is harmful to a computer user.
  10. 20. ____________ is the need to ensure that the people involved with the agency, including employees, customers, and visitors, are protected from harm.
  11. 21. A computer ______ can be considered as the modern counterpart of a paper document.
  12. 22. A collection of information that is organized so that it can easily be accessed, managed, and updated.
  13. 24. Healthy email always includes a clear and specific ____________ line.
  14. 25. Desk If you have any question or concerns about an email that you receive you can send it to spam@ashevillenc.gov or contact for _______.
  15. 28. ________ laws such as HIPAA are designed for the regulation of personal information about individuals which can be collected by governments and other public and private organizations.
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  1. 1. __________ is a popular web search engine.
  2. 2. Protect your laptop, cell phone or any other mobile devices by treating it like _______.
  3. 4. Use this tool to dispose of documents that contain personal or financial information.
  4. 5. Do not send __________ information over email unless it is encrypted.
  5. 8. A secure password should contain at least one of these.
  6. 9. Email scam or attempt to trick you into giving your password or personal information.
  7. 10. Do not leave your laptop or computer ____________.
  8. 13. __________ stick, also known as a flash drive, is a plug-and-play portable storage device that uses flash memory and is lightweight enough to attach to a key chain.
  9. 15. Choose a password that is easy for you to ____________ but hard for someone to guess.
  10. 17. A __________ is hardware of software that helps keep hackers from using your computer and it watches for outside attempts to access your sysytem and blocks communition that you don't permit.
  11. 18. To ________ the amount of spam you receive, be careful who you give your email address to.
  12. 20. The state of being free from danger or threat.
  13. 23. Another word for understanding, knowledge and well-informed.
  14. 26. A __________ is often an email that gets mailed in chain letter fashion describing some devasting, highly unlikely type of virus.
  15. 27. Passwords should always be at least this many characters long.