Information Technology Security Quiz

Privacy. Research. Homework. Reputation.

You can lose them all at the touch of a button. 

Students, faculty, and staff are all potential victims of computer crime. Personal computers are as much at risk as larger servers. Although day-to-day computer use is usually uneventful, disagreeable incidents, that could have been prevented, are happening frequently. Please spend the next several minutes taking this quiz, as it may help you from becoming the next victim. Just as highways make interstate crime easier, networking can bring "inter-computer" crime right to our desktops. Today, 300 million people can touch our computers with the click of a mouse. They can use the power of today's computers to automate and assist criminal behavior just as we use that power for our benefit. Threats aren't always from the outside. We can hurt ourselves by mishandling our own information or that of others.  Our own errors can be just as bad as a computer virus or a computer hacker breaking in and wreaking havoc.

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* The introduction and questions 1-6 and 10 are based on James Madison University's "Computer Security Awareness" quiz. Reprinted with permission.