CyberSec Training Quiz

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CyberSec Awareness Training Quiz

Welcome to the CyberSec Awareness Training Quiz designed specifically for Gentec employees! Enhance your understanding of cybersecurity and learn about common threats and best practices to keep our online environment secure.

Test your knowledge with questions that cover key topics such as:

Phishing attacks
Human vulnerabilities
Security awareness for executives
The importance of a human firewall

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by InformedGuard361

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Hello Gentec! We are GuardStream, an academic fictional cybersecurity mock company, comprising students from Macquarie University’s Computing Department. This quiz's goal is to enhance cybersecurity awareness among Gentec employees, allowing the corporation to maintain a secure and comfortable online working environment. Let's get started!

To begin, let's start with a simple question. What is the most important security awareness training topic?

Which of the following is not a reason why security awareness training is essential for executives?

Executives may be exposed to foreign governments or commercial adversaries as a result of business travel.

Executives are less likely than average employees to remember security fundamentals.

Executives are more valuable candidates for credential theft since they have more access privileges.

Executives with access to their company's sensitive trade secrets are targets of cyberespionage efforts.

Why are humans still the weakest link despite security training and resources?

Threat actors spend their days thinking of new ways to exploit human vulnerabilities and are rewarded for their innovation.

Average people do not spend all their time thinking about security and may feel powerless in preventing attacks.

Cybersecurity practitioners may be the only people at their organizations who spend their workdays focused on prevention, protection and mitigation activities.

All of the above

True or false: IT leaders need to communicate the security risks of deepfake technology to all employees.

True

False

Why is the phishing simulation fail rate -- the percentage of users who click on a suspicious email -- useful to security teams?

It is used to determine which employees should be promoted.

It is used to evaluate the efficacy of security awareness training.

It is used to name and shame users who failed the phishing test.

It is not useful to security teams.

Which of the following is true of a human firewall?

It can replace technical firewalls.

It is composed of every member of the organization, regardless of job title.

It involves educating and incentivizing employees to combat threats to their organization.

Both B and C

True or false: Though positive reinforcement in security awareness training can change risky behavior, it can also produce costly side effects, such as damaging employee morale.

True

False

To trick users into falling for phishing emails, attackers exploit human psychology by triggering which of the following automatic responses in the brain?

Response to authority

Response to scarcity

Response to security

Both A and B

Which of the following is a major obstacle to creating or improving a workplace cybersecurity culture?

Mandated password reset policies

Lack of CISO succession plan

Adequate security budgets

Recruiting, training and retaining security talent with a diverse set of backgrounds

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