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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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1. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






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






3. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






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






5. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






7. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






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






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






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






12. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






19. Carries out the technical administration.






20. 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.






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






22. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Provides strong online authentication.






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






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






32. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






33. Cannot be minimized






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






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






47. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






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






49. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






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






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