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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Internal risk assessment
Biometric access control systems
Detection defenses
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
2. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.
Phishing
The database administrator
Regulatory compliance
Worm
3. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Regular review of access control lists
Security baselines
Digital signatures
4. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.
Personal firewall
Is willing to accept
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
5. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.
Service level agreements (SLAs)
Performing a risk assessment
Breakeven point of risk reduction and cost
Exceptions to policy
6. 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.
Well-defined roles and responsibilities
Cost of control
Risk appetite
Biometric access control systems
7. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.
Background check
Exceptions to policy
Risk appetite
Information security manager
8. Carries out the technical administration.
Gain unauthorized access to applications
Background check
Protective switch covers
The database administrator
9. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.
The balanced scorecard
Logon banners
SWOT analysis
Consensus on risks and controls
10. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
IP address packet filtering
Multinational organization
11. The PRIMARY goal in developing an information security strategy is to: _________________________.
Security baselines
Applying the proper classification to the data
Trusted source
Support the business objectives of the organization
12. 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
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Deeper level of analysis
Centralized structure
The information security officer
13. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.
The balanced scorecard
Requirements of the data owners
Encryption of the hard disks
Spoofing attacks
14. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
The data owner
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Classification of assets needs
15. 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 -
Aligned with organizational goals
Do with the information it collects
Gap analysis
Cracker
16. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information
Protective switch covers
Creation of a business continuity plan
Phishing
Script kiddie
17. 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.
Background check
Gap analysis
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
Knowledge management
18. 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.
Trojan horse
Conduct a risk assessment
Prioritization
Equal error rate (EER)
19. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Virus detection
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Security code reviews for the entire software application
20. Because past performance is a strong predictor of future performance - _______________________ best prevents attacks from originating within an organization.
The balanced scorecard
Background checks of prospective employees
Security risk
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
21. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.
Key controls
Annual loss expectancy (ALE)calculations
Audit objectives
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
22. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.
Audit objectives
Key controls
Asset classification
The authentication process is broken
23. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.
SWOT analysis
The authentication process is broken
Encryption
Consensus on risks and controls
24. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.
Performing a risk assessment
Internal risk assessment
Increase business value and confidence
The data custodian
25. Inject malformed input.
Key controls
Inherent risk
Stress testing
Cross-site scripting attacks
26. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.
Rule-based access control
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Assess the risks to the business operation
Key controls
27. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Detection defenses
Security risk
Cross-site scripting attacks
28. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Assess the risks to the business operation
include security responsibilities in a job description
Data warehouse
29. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
Logon banners
Information contained on the equipment
30. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.
Asset classification
Service level agreements (SLAs)
Data classification
A network vulnerability assessment
31. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.
include security responsibilities in a job description
Decentralization
Waterfall chart
Virus detection
32. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
Detection defenses
Data classification
33. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.
Breakeven point of risk reduction and cost
Worm
Centralized structure
Baseline standard and then develop additional standards
34. Accesses a computer or network illegally
Support the business objectives of the organization
Cracker
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Inherent risk
35. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.
Defined objectives
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Transferred risk
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
36. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Internal risk assessment
Attributes and characteristics of the 'desired state'
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
37. 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
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Access control matrix
IP address packet filtering
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
38. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.
Overall organizational structure
Annual loss expectancy (ALE)calculations
Background check
Conduct a risk assessment
39. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
MAL wear
Phishing
Service level agreements (SLAs)
40. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge
Defined objectives
Use of security metrics
The board of directors and senior management
Script kiddie
41. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.
Cracker
Residual risk
Creation of a business continuity plan
Do with the information it collects
42. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.
Developing an information security baseline
Key controls
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Defining high-level business security requirements
43. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.
SWOT analysis
Data isolation
Cyber extortionist
Calculating the value of the information or asset
44. 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.
Use of security metrics
Normalization
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
45. 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
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
All personnel
Get senior management onboard
Stress testing
46. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.
Hacker
Access control matrix
Normalization
Gap analysis
47. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.
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48. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
The authentication process is broken
Fault-tolerant computer
Asset classification
49. 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 _____________.
SWOT analysis
Conduct a risk assessment
What happened and how the breach was resolved
The authentication process is broken
50. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.
Transmit e-mail messages
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Role-based policy
Identify the relevant systems and processes