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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Awareness training would most likely result in any attempted ____________ being challenged by the authorized employee






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. Uses security metrics to measure the performance of the information security program.






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






7. Accesses a computer or network illegally






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






9. Has full responsibility over data.






10. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






12. 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.






13. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






18. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






19. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. Responsible for securing the information.






25. While useful for identifying the difference between the current state and the desired future state - e.g. organization has to comply with recently published industry regulatory requirements compliance that potentially has high implementation costs -






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






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






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






29. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.






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






31. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






32. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






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. 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.






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






40. Provides process needs but not impact.






41. The best strategy for risk management is to ___________________- as this will take into account the organization's appetite for risk and the fact that it would not be practical to eliminate all risk.






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






43. 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.






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






45. The PRIMARY goal in developing an information security strategy is to: _________________________.






46. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






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






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






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