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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.






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






3. Provides strong online authentication.






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






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






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.






7. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.






8. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit






9. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






10. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






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






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






13. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






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






15. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.






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






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






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






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






21. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






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.






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.






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






26. Cannot be minimized






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






28. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






29. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.






30. Inject malformed input.






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.






32. Responsible for securing the information.






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






34. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






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






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






38. A key indicator of performance measurement.






39. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






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






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






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






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






44. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.






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






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






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






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 _____________.






49. Provides process needs but not impact.






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.