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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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1. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.






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






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






4. Responsible for securing the information.






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






6. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.






7. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.






8. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






9. Provides process needs but not impact.






10. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.






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






12. 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






13. The best strategy for risk management is to ___________________- as this will take into account the organization's appetite for risk and the fact that it would not be practical to eliminate all risk.






14. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






21. Provides strong online authentication.






22. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






24. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge






25. 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






26. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.






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






28. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






29. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






30. Carries out the technical administration.






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






32. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.






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






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






35. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. 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 -






47. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






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






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






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







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