The Data Center Strike
Russian social media giant VK faced user-reported disruptions after a strike on its data center, though VK denied its services were affected.
Key terms
AP Cybersecurity alignment
- 2.1.D.2An asset is anything valuable. Assets include financial resources, intellectual property, data, digital infrastructure, physical property, and reputation.Learning objective: Describe the risk assessment process.
- 2.2.B.1Threats include human adversaries seeking to cause harm or disruption as well as natural disasters. Natural disasters can cause physical damage or destruction to computers and data as well as disruption of digital services…Learning objective: Explain how threats can exploit common physical vulnerabilities to cause loss, damage, disruption, or destruction to assets.
AP Networking alignment
- 4.1.A.2Violations of the CIA triad often occur together, resulting in greater impact. Understanding the full scope of an incident requires investigating what happened, who was affected, and how data or services were impacted.…Learning objective: Identify evidence of compromised confidentiality, integrity, or availability.
- 4.1.A.5When availability is compromised, systems have unexpected periods of time when they are out of service. A breach of availability can be identified by: • an inability to access systems, networks, or resources • slow or dropped…Learning objective: Identify evidence of compromised confidentiality, integrity, or availability.
- 4.6.B.2Monitoring and alerting tools help ensure availability by enabling rapid detection of failures or suspicious activity.Learning objective: Identify ways to improve the reliability and availability of networked systems.