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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






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






3. 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.






4. Responsible for securing the information.






5. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






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






7. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






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. Are not infallible. When tuning the solution - one has to adjust the sensitivity level to give preference either to false reject rate (type I error rate) where the system will be more prone to err denying access to a valid user or erring and allowing






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






18. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.






24. May show the performance result of the security related activities; however - the result is interpreted in terms of money and extends to multiple facets of security initiatives.






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






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






27. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






28. 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 -






29. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






30. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.






31. 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.






32. 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






33. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






44. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






45. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.






46. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






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






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






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






50. Awareness training would most likely result in any attempted ____________ being challenged by the authorized employee