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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Are not infallible. When tuning the solution - one has to adjust the sensitivity level to give preference either to false reject rate (type I error rate) where the system will be more prone to err denying access to a valid user or erring and allowing






2. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.






3. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






4. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.






5. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.






6. Residual risk is unmanaged - i.e. - inherent risk which remains uncontrolled. This is key to the organization's _____________ and is the amount of residual risk that a business is living with that affects its viability.






7. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






8. Carries out the technical administration.






9. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.






10. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.






11. The PRIMARY goal in developing an information security strategy is to: _________________________.






12. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






13. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






14. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






15. While useful for identifying the difference between the current state and the desired future state - e.g. organization has to comply with recently published industry regulatory requirements compliance that potentially has high implementation costs -






16. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






17. The best strategy for risk management is to ___________________- as this will take into account the organization's appetite for risk and the fact that it would not be practical to eliminate all risk.






18. In biometric systems where the possibility of false rejects is a problem - it may be necessary to reduce sensitivity and thereby increase the number of false accepts.






19. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.






20. Because past performance is a strong predictor of future performance - _______________________ best prevents attacks from originating within an organization.






21. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.






22. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






23. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






24. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.






25. Inject malformed input.






26. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






27. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






28. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






29. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






30. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






31. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






32. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






33. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






34. Accesses a computer or network illegally






35. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.






36. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.






37. The BEST way to justify the implementation of a _____________________ is to use a business case. Return on investment (ROI) would only provide the costs needed to preclude specific risks - and would not provide other indirect benefits such as process






38. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.






39. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations






40. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge






41. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.






42. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.






43. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.






44. The most critical process for deciding which part of the information system/business process should be given prioritization in case of a security incident.It provides results - such as impact from a security incident and required response times.






45. The MOST effective approach to address issues that arise between IT management - business units and security management when implementing a new security strategy is for the information security manager to ____________________ with any security recomm






46. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.






47. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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48. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






49. An internal review of a web-based application system finds the ability to gain access to all employees' accounts by changing the employee's ID on the URL used for accessing the account. It means _____________.






50. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.