Obfuscation – CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 – 1.4
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What is obfuscation in cybersecurity?
The process of making information more difficult to understand, often to protect sensitive data or conceal its true purpose.
True or False: Obfuscation makes data impossible to understand.
False. Obfuscation makes data more difficult to understand, but not impossible.
What is steganography?
A method of hiding data within other non-secret text or data, such as embedding a message within an image or audio file.
How does tokenization protect sensitive data?
By replacing sensitive data elements with non-sensitive equivalents (tokens) that have no exploitable meaning or value.
What is data masking?
A technique that hides original data with modified content (characters or other data) to protect sensitive information.
Why is obfuscation used in cybersecurity?
To protect sensitive information by making it less understandable, thereby reducing the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches.
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