by Myles Mellor
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ACROSS
1 It is often thought to be the basis for access
control, goes with 5 down
9 Type of cyberattack, abbr.
11 Tracks left by malware attacks, goes with 33 down
12 IT equipment that can be single-sided,
double-sided or multilayer, abbr.
14 Greek country code
15 Bona fides
20 Word before flag
21 No longer used
22 Snail-like communication
24 Height, (abbr.)
25 Author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the
Highly Improbable
26 “____ a Trojan Horse!”
27 Standard
28 High-___ (cutting-edge)
29 Ogburn’s cultural ___ thesis
30 Short-sightedness
34 One followed by 100 zeros
36 First chairman of the US National Commission
on Fraudulent Financial Reporting
39 Peak
40 Father of computer science, whose life was
portrayed in The Imitation Game
42 Word used with dilemma and choices
46 Part of OPEC
47 Removes sensitive information from a document
48 Network of physical objects connecting
electronic devices, abbr.
DOWN
2 Increases, as an amount
3 Minimized loss, in some way
4 Gist
5 See 1 across
6 Include
7 Business management software, abbr.
8 Trendsetting
10 Alternative intro word
13 Type of architecture that provides the ever-expanding volume of information that is essential
to malware detection and analysis, 2 words
15 Important certification for an IS auditor, abbr.
16 Relative, for short
17 Snare
18 Relieve concerns
19 Gasping cry
22 Lessens the seriousness of
23 Eroded, with into
24 Famous film computer
31 Cats___ (person used by another as a tool)
32 Compromised computers running on automatic
33 See 11 across
35 Record
37 It has come to mean the core of a company’s
culture or production emphasis
38 Product
41 Kind of command
43 Profit
44 Auction segment
45 It is Down Under, abbr.
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