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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Exceptions to policy
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
Spoofing attacks
2. 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
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Transferred risk
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Two-factor authentication
3. Provides strong online authentication.
Data isolation
Confidentiality
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
4. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org
Increase business value and confidence
Data warehouse
Encryption key management
Defining high-level business security requirements
5. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.
Key controls
Identify the relevant systems and processes
The database administrator
Hacker
6. 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.
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Monitoring processes
Security code reviews for the entire software application
The data custodian
7. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.
Control effectiveness
Attributes and characteristics of the 'desired state'
Comparison of cost of achievement
Data owners
8. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit
Detection defenses
Data mart
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
9. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program
Acceptable use policies
Security risk
Service level agreements (SLAs)
Trojan horse
10. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.
Safeguards over keys
Acceptable use policies
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
Calculating the value of the information or asset
11. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.
Classification of assets needs
Cyber extortionist
SWOT analysis
Support the business objectives of the organization
12. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.
Control risk
Classification of assets needs
Encryption of the hard disks
Comparison of cost of achievement
13. Occurs when the electrical supply drops
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
The balanced scorecard
Acceptable use policies
Undervoltage (brownout)
14. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.
SWOT analysis
Methodology used in the assessment
Regular review of access control lists
Developing an information security baseline
15. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Conduct a risk assessment
Data mart
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
16. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.
Virus detection
Exceptions to policy
Cyber extortionist
Spoofing attacks
17. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works
The data custodian
Key controls
Virus
Control effectiveness
18. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.
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19. Determined by the business risk - i.e. - the potential impact on the business of the loss - corruption or disclosure of information. It must be applied to information in all forms - both electronic and physical (paper) - and should be applied by the
Creation of a business continuity plan
Intrusion detection system (IDS)
Data classification
Baseline standard and then develop additional standards
20. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory
Methodology used in the assessment
Digital certificate
MAL wear
Knowledge management
21. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps
The balanced scorecard
Centralized structure
Data isolation
Transferred risk
22. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.
Key risk indicator (KRI) setup
Creation of a business continuity plan
Data mart
SWOT analysis
23. 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.
Tie security risks to key business objectives
Security baselines
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
The data custodian
24. 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.
Aligned with organizational goals
Key risk indicator (KRI) setup
Creation of a business continuity plan
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
25. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail
Control effectiveness
Fault-tolerant computer
Increase business value and confidence
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
26. Cannot be minimized
Inherent risk
Increase business value and confidence
Background checks of prospective employees
The data custodian
27. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Increase business value and confidence
Worm
Owner of the information asset
28. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.
Defined objectives
Stress testing
include security responsibilities in a job description
Certificate authority (CA)
29. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.
People
Encryption of the hard disks
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
The board of directors and senior management
30. Inject malformed input.
Cross-site scripting attacks
Encryption key management
Return on security investment (ROSI)
Gap analysis
31. 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.
MAL wear
OBusiness case development
Risk appetite
Cyber terrorist
32. Responsible for securing the information.
The data custodian
Exceptions to policy
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
All personnel
33. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.
Encryption of the hard disks
The authentication process is broken
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
Encryption key management
34. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.
The information security officer
Overall organizational structure
Monitoring processes
Biometric access control systems
35. The MOST effective way to ensure network users are aware of their responsibilities to comply with an organization's security requirements is - ______________ would appear every time the user logs on - and the user would be required to read and agree
Retention of business records
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
Is willing to accept
Logon banners
36. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.
Creation of a business continuity plan
Patch management process
Fault-tolerant computer
Performing a risk assessment
37. 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
Internal risk assessment
Biometric access control systems
Examples of containment defenses
Get senior management onboard
38. A key indicator of performance measurement.
Acceptable use policies
The authentication process is broken
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
Trusted source
39. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.
Deeper level of analysis
Transmit e-mail messages
Internal risk assessment
Requirements of the data owners
40. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.
Methodology used in the assessment
Penetration testing
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Internal risk assessment
41. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.
Information security manager
Encryption
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Transferred risk
42. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.
Waterfall chart
Alignment with business strategy
Vulnerability assessment
Cyber extortionist
43. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.
Data classification
Biometric access control systems
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Acceptable use policies
44. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.
Rule-based access control
The data custodian
Control effectiveness
Trusted source
45. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
0-day vulnerabilities
Identify the relevant systems and processes
All personnel
46. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.
Defined objectives
Monitoring processes
OBusiness case development
include security responsibilities in a job description
47. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.
Role-based policy
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Certificate authority (CA)
Get senior management onboard
48. 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 _____________.
Single sign-on (SSO) product
The authentication process is broken
The information security officer
Detection defenses
49. Provides process needs but not impact.
Resource dependency assessment
Get senior management onboard
Cross-site scripting attacks
Vulnerability assessment
50. 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.
Threat assessment
include security responsibilities in a job description
Virus
The authentication process is broken