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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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1. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






2. 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






3. Provides strong online authentication.






4. 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.






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






6. Effective and efficient in large user communities because it controls system access by the roles defined for groups of users. Users are assigned to the various roles and the system controls the access based on those roles.






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






8. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.






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






10. 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






11. Responsible for securing the information.






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






13. Occurs when the incoming level






14. Inject malformed input.






15. 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






16. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






17. 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.






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






19. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






21. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






22. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






30. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






31. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions






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






33. The weakest link in security implementation - and awareness would reduce this risk. Through security awareness and training programs - individual employees can be informed and sensitized on various security policies and other security topics - thus e






34. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






35. A key indicator of performance measurement.






36. 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






37. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.






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






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






40. A method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form






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






42. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.






43. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






45. There is a time lag between the time when a security vulnerability is first published - and the time when a patch is delivered. - The best protection is to _____________________ until a patch is installed.






46. A trusted third party that attests to the identity of the signatory - and reliance will be a function of the level of trust afforded the CA.






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






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






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






50. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.







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