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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






2. Most effective in providing reasonable assurance of physical access compliance to an unmanned server room controlled with biometric devices.






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






4. 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 -






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






6. 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.






7. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






8. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






9. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






10. A key indicator of performance measurement.






11. Determined by the business risk - i.e. - the potential impact on the business of the loss - corruption or disclosure of information. It must be applied to information in all forms - both electronic and physical (paper) - and should be applied by the






12. The MOST effective way to ensure network users are aware of their responsibilities to comply with an organization's security requirements is - ______________ would appear every time the user logs on - and the user would be required to read and agree






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






14. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






16. 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.






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






18. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






19. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






20. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons






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






22. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






23. Allows you to use field security personnel as security missionaries or ambassadors to spread the security awareness message. It allows security administrators to be more responsive.






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






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






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






27. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen - the ______________________ matters most in determining the impact of the loss.






28. A notice that guarantees a user or a web site is legitimate






29. 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.






30. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.






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






32. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works






33. Carries out the technical administration.






34. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






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






36. 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.






37. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






38. Only valid if assets have first been identified and appropriately valued.






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






40. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






41. Cannot be minimized






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






43. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.






44. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.






45. btaining senior management support for establishing a warm site can BEST be accomplished by ____________________ - including a cost-benefit analysis - will be most persuasive to management. A risk assessment may be included in the business case - but






46. The _____________________is a severe omission and will greatly increase information security risk. Presents the GREATEST information security risk for an organization with multiple - but small - domestic processing locations






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






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






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






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