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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






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






3. Provides strong online authentication.






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






5. 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






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






7. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






13. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.






14. 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.






15. The most important characteristic of good security policies is that they be ____________________.






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






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






18. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.






19. Risk should be reduced to a level that an organization _____________.






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






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






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






23. Has full responsibility over data.






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






25. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






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






27. 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.






28. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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






31. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






32. Lists only the threats that the information asset is exposed to. It does not consider the value of the asset and impact of the threat on the value.






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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






38. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






39. 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.






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






41. 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






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






43. 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 -






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






45. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






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






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






48. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.






49. Responsible for securing the information.






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