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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. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.






2. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. Cannot be minimized






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






19. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






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






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






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






23. Carries out the technical administration.






24. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






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






26. 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






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






28. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.






29. 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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30. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






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






33. 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 -






34. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






35. Risk assessment is a very important process for the ___________________. Risk assessment provides information on the likelihood of occurrence of security incidence and assists in the selection of countermeasures - but not in the prioritization.






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






37. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.






38. 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 _____________.






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






40. 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






41. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.






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






47. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.






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






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






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