Acronyms
146Cybersecurity abbreviations, what each one stands for, how it is used, and which roles work with it.
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One Security+ practice question General Security Concepts
A manufacturing plant's engineering workstations were infected by a worm that spread through an unpatched file share. The sysadmin isolates the segment, re-images the 14 affected machines from a gold image, and restores the CAD files from last night's backup. The plant manager asks how to categorize the re-imaging and restore activity for the incident report. Which control type applies?
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