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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






2. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






3. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






4. 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.






5. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






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






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






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






9. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






10. 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






11. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge






12. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






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






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






15. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.






16. 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 _____________.






17. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.






18. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.






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






20. 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.






21. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






22. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.






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






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






25. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.






26. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly






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






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






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






30. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






32. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. May show the performance result of the security related activities; however - the result is interpreted in terms of money and extends to multiple facets of security initiatives.






36. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






37. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






38. Inject malformed input.






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






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






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






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






43. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






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






49. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






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