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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail






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






10. Accesses a computer or network illegally






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






12. 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






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






14. 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 _____________.






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






16. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






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






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






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






20. 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 -






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






22. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






23. Provides strong online authentication.






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






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






26. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.






27. 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.






28. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability






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






30. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.






31. Inject malformed input.






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.






33. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. Occurs when the incoming level






45. 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.






46. By definition are not previously known and therefore are undetectable.






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






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






49. 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.






50. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations







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