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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Effective and efficient in large user communities because it controls system access by the roles defined for groups of users. Users are assigned to the various roles and the system controls the access based on those roles.
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
Role-based access control
Use of security metrics
2. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.
Information security manager
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Data owners
3. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.
Baseline standard and then develop additional standards
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
MAL wear
Key controls
4. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally
Cracker
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
Assess the risks to the business operation
Hacker
5. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Prioritization
Role-based policy
6. The weakest link in security implementation - and awareness would reduce this risk. Through security awareness and training programs - individual employees can be informed and sensitized on various security policies and other security topics - thus e
Owner of the information asset
People
Background checks of prospective employees
Logon banners
7. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Role-based policy
Increase business value and confidence
Proficiency testing
8. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations
MAL wear
Resource dependency assessment
Confidentiality
Conduct a risk assessment
9. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.
Acceptable use policies
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Internal risk assessment
Cyber extortionist
10. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.
Baseline standard and then develop additional standards
Patch management process
include security responsibilities in a job description
Rule-based access control
11. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.
The authentication process is broken
Data warehouse
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Methodology used in the assessment
12. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.
Tailgating
Risk appetite
Access control matrix
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
13. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.
Patch management process
Rule-based access control
Increase business value and confidence
Calculating the value of the information or asset
14. 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
Cost of control
Do with the information it collects
Data classification
Knowledge management
15. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.
Data warehouse
Personal firewall
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Waterfall chart
16. Provides process needs but not impact.
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Resource dependency assessment
Information security manager
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
17. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Examples of containment defenses
Transferred risk
Rule-based access control
18. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.
Penetration testing
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
MAL wear
Patch management process
19. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network
The database administrator
Performing a risk assessment
Worm
Undervoltage (brownout)
20. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.
The information security officer
Phishing
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Vulnerability assessment
21. Responsible for securing the information.
Methodology used in the assessment
Multinational organization
The data custodian
Consensus on risks and controls
22. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.
Alignment with business strategy
Use of security metrics
Knowledge management
Multinational organization
23. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
0-day vulnerabilities
Lack of change management
Increase business value and confidence
24. 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
Virus
Overall organizational structure
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
25. 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
Get senior management onboard
Proficiency testing
Cyber terrorist
Inherent risk
26. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.
Centralization of information security management
Do with the information it collects
Confidentiality
OBusiness case development
27. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.
The authentication process is broken
include security responsibilities in a job description
Requirements of the data owners
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
28. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org
Data owners
Conduct a risk assessment
Data warehouse
Transmit e-mail messages
29. 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 _____________.
Consensus on risks and controls
The authentication process is broken
Tie security risks to key business objectives
Equal error rate (EER)
30. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.
Developing an information security baseline
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
People
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
31. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.
Encryption
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
Role-based access control
Examples of containment defenses
32. 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.
Two-factor authentication
The information security officer
Monitoring processes
A network vulnerability assessment
33. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.
Service level agreements (SLAs)
include security responsibilities in a job description
Virus detection
Fault-tolerant computer
34. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.
Control effectiveness
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Control risk
Knowledge management
35. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.
Waterfall chart
Safeguards over keys
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Spoofing attacks
36. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.
Trusted source
Acceptable use policies
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Cost of control
37. The MOST important component of a privacy policy is: A Privacy policies must contain _______________; they are a high-level management statement of direction. They do not necessarily address warranties - liabilities or geographic coverage - which are
Threat assessment
Decentralization
Deeper level of analysis
Notifications and opt-out provisions
38. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Security baselines
Stress testing
Classification of assets needs
39. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Exceptions to policy
Malicious software and spyware
Information security manager
40. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.
Worm
Confidentiality
The board of directors and senior management
IP address packet filtering
41. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.
The information security officer
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Role-based policy
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
42. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program
Encryption
Trusted source
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Trojan horse
43. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.
Phishing
Encryption of the hard disks
Aligned with organizational goals
The balanced scorecard
44. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.
include security responsibilities in a job description
Conduct a risk assessment
Retention of business records
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
45. Carries out the technical administration.
Get senior management onboard
The database administrator
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
Tailgating
46. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
Two-factor authentication
Use of security metrics
Control effectiveness
47. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps
Data isolation
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
Gap analysis
Internal risk assessment
48. 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.
Equal error rate (EER)
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Increase business value and confidence
Stress testing
49. The most important characteristic of good security policies is that they be ____________________.
Get senior management onboard
Aligned with organizational goals
Alignment with business strategy
Control effectiveness
50. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.
Classification of assets needs
Lack of change management
Return on security investment (ROSI)
Cracker