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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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1. Carries out the technical administration.






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






3. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.






4. The _____________________is a severe omission and will greatly increase information security risk. Presents the GREATEST information security risk for an organization with multiple - but small - domestic processing locations






5. 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.






6. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






7. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






15. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






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






17. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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






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






20. 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.






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






22. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






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.






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






25. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






26. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.






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






28. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






29. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






30. 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 _____________.






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






32. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.






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






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






35. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






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






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






38. Provides strong online authentication.






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






40. 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.






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






42. Awareness training would most likely result in any attempted ____________ being challenged by the authorized employee






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






50. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability