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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A tool to be used in internal control assessment. KRI setup presents a threshold to alert management when controls are being compromised in business processes. This is a control tool rather than a maturity model support tool.






2. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






3. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






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

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5. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability






6. Risk should be reduced to a level that an organization _____________.






7. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.






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






9. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.






10. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.






11. Provides an additional security mechanism over and above that provided by passwords alone. This is frequently used by mobile users needing to establish connectivity to a corporate network.






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






13. 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






14. Provides process needs but not impact.






15. 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






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






17. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






18. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.






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






20. Also required to guarantee fulfillment of laws and regulations of the organization and - therefore - the information security manager will be obligated to comply with the law.






21. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.






22. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






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






24. A key indicator of performance measurement.






25. An information security manager has to impress upon the human resources department the need for _____________________.






26. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






27. Uses security metrics to measure the performance of the information security program.






28. 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.






29. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






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






31. Inject malformed input.






32. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory






33. 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.






34. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.






35. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






36. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.






37. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.






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






39. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.






40. Accesses a computer or network illegally






41. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






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






43. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






44. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.






45. Are expensive - so they have to be used in areas where the risk is at its greatest level. These areas are the ones with high impact and high frequency of occurrence.






46. Provides strong online authentication.






47. 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 _____________.






48. 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 -






49. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






50. 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.