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ISC2 CC Practice Question: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
Which type of incident involves an attacker attempting to make a system or network resource unavailable to legitimate users?
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Why each option matters
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Denial of service
A denial of service (DoS) attack aims to disrupt services by overwhelming resources.
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Denial of service
Why this is correct
DoS attacks target availability.
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Social engineering
Why it's wrong here
Social engineering manipulates people to divulge information.
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Malware
Why it's wrong here
Malware is malicious software, not necessarily causing unavailability.
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Data breach
Why it's wrong here
Data breach involves unauthorized access to data.
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Network Security Foundations
Key term
DoS
A cyberattack that floods a target with traffic or requests to exhaust its resources, making it unavailable to legitimate users.
Key term
Incident
An incident is a security event that violates an organization's policies or threatens its data, systems, or operations, requiring a structured response.
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