Controls that are intended to ensure that attacks are unsuccessful is analogous to ______________ in dependability engineering?
Correct answer: A. Fault avoidance
- A. Fault avoidance
- B. Fault tolerance
- C. Fault detection
- D. Fault Recovery
Explanation
Controls that prevent an attack from succeeding correspond to fault avoidance, which aims to prevent faults from being introduced or activated. Fault tolerance instead limits the effects of faults that have already occurred.
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