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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Uses security metrics to measure the performance of the information security program.






2. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






3. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






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






6. 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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7. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






8. 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.






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






10. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






11. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






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






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






14. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






15. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.






38. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






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






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






41. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






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






43. _______________ of the organization have the responsibility of ensuring information systems security this can include indirect personnel such as physical security personnel.






44. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations






45. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






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






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






48. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.






49. Allows you to use field security personnel as security missionaries or ambassadors to spread the security awareness message. It allows security administrators to be more responsive.






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