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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. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






2. There is a time lag between the time when a security vulnerability is first published - and the time when a patch is delivered. - The best protection is to _____________________ until a patch is installed.






3. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.






4. The starting point for driving management's attention to information security. All other choices will follow the risk assessment.






5. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.






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






7. 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.






8. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions






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






10. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






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






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






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






14. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.






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






16. 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






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






18. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






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






20. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.






21. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






22. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






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






25. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






26. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






27. 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 -






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. A method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form






34. 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.






35. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly






36. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.






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






38. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






39. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org






40. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.






41. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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






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






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






46. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






47. _______________ of the organization have the responsibility of ensuring information systems security this can include indirect personnel such as physical security personnel.






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






49. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.






50. Cannot be minimized