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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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






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






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






4. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






6. 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 -






7. 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






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






9. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






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






12. Has full responsibility over data.






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






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






15. Are expensive - so they have to be used in areas where the risk is at its greatest level. These areas are the ones with high impact and high frequency of occurrence.






16. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






17. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






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






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






20. 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






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






22. Lists only the vulnerabilities inherent in the information asset that can attract threats. It does not consider the value of the asset and the impact of perceived threats on the value.






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






24. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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






31. The most critical process for deciding which part of the information system/business process should be given prioritization in case of a security incident.It provides results - such as impact from a security incident and required response times.






32. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






34. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






35. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






36. Provides strong online authentication.






37. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






39. Would reduce the possibility of an individual accidentally pressing the power button on a device - thereby turning off the device.






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






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






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






44. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






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






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






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






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






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






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







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