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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.






2. Provides process needs but not impact.






3. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






4. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.

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5. Responsible for securing the information.






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






7. 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.






8. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.






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






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






24. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






25. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






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






27. 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






28. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit






29. n a _________________________ - the annual cost of safeguards is compared with the expected cost of loss. This can then be used to justify a specific control measure.






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






31. 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






32. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. Provides strong online authentication.






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






40. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






41. Accesses a computer or network illegally






42. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






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






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






45. 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.






46. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.






47. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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






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