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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.
The information security officer
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Patch management process
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
2. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.
Safeguards over keys
Audit objectives
Trojan horse
Digital signatures
3. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'
Security baselines
Spoofing attacks
include security responsibilities in a job description
Inherent risk
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.
Gain unauthorized access to applications
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
Proficiency testing
Penetration testing
5. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.
Role-based policy
People
Applying the proper classification to the data
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
6. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.
Cross-site scripting attacks
Asset classification
A network vulnerability assessment
Performing a risk assessment
7. Because past performance is a strong predictor of future performance - _______________________ best prevents attacks from originating within an organization.
Equal error rate (EER)
Patch management process
Background checks of prospective employees
Transmit e-mail messages
8. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.
Tie security risks to key business objectives
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
Support the business objectives of the organization
Threat assessment
9. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Transferred risk
Hacker
Fault-tolerant computer
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
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
OBusiness case development
Overall organizational structure
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
11. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge
Aligned with organizational goals
Script kiddie
Two-factor authentication
Baseline standard and then develop additional standards
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.
Lack of change management
Skills inventory
Control effectiveness
The data custodian
13. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.
Security baselines
Spoofing attacks
Is willing to accept
Rule-based access control
14. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.
Confidentiality
Use of security metrics
Normalization
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
15. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.
Proficiency testing
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Classification of assets needs
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
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 _____________.
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
Is willing to accept
The authentication process is broken
17. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.
Monitoring processes
Service level agreements (SLAs)
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Waterfall chart
18. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.
Process of introducing changes to systems
Data isolation
Use of security metrics
Trojan horse
19. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
Gain unauthorized access to applications
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Cost of control
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
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.
Digital certificate
Virus detection
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
Role-based policy
21. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
Deeper level of analysis
Data isolation
22. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.
Audit objectives
Regulatory compliance
Increase business value and confidence
Internal risk assessment
23. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.
include security responsibilities in a job description
Virus detection
Knowledge management
Owner of the information asset
24. Only valid if assets have first been identified and appropriately valued.
Annual loss expectancy (ALE)calculations
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
Regulatory compliance
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
25. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.
Risk appetite
Overall organizational structure
Conduct a risk assessment
0-day vulnerabilities
26. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly
Transferred risk
Lack of change management
Trusted source
Assess the risks to the business operation
27. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit
Lack of change management
Data mart
Process of introducing changes to systems
Developing an information security baseline
28. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.
IP address packet filtering
Gap analysis
Data warehouse
Rule-based access control
29. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.
Do with the information it collects
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
30. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
Multinational organization
Penetration testing
Trusted source
31. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Background checks of prospective employees
Biometric access control systems
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
32. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.
Personal firewall
Trusted source
MAL wear
Waterfall chart
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.
People
Equal error rate (EER)
Cyber terrorist
Spoofing attacks
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.
Personal firewall
Risk appetite
Do with the information it collects
Tailgating
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.
Consensus on risks and controls
Performing a risk assessment
Certificate authority (CA)
Return on security investment (ROSI)
36. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.
Developing an information security baseline
Confidentiality
A network vulnerability assessment
Worm
37. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.
Cracker
0-day vulnerabilities
IP address packet filtering
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
38. Inject malformed input.
Biometric access control systems
Cross-site scripting attacks
The database administrator
Performing a risk assessment
39. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Patch management
Data warehouse
Annual loss expectancy (ALE)calculations
40. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.
Control risk
Encryption key management
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Security risk
41. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.
Encryption
Identify the relevant systems and processes
SWOT analysis
Return on security investment (ROSI)
42. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.
Requirements of the data owners
Breakeven point of risk reduction and cost
SWOT analysis
Cyber terrorist
43. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.
Cryptographic secure sockets layer (SSL) implementations and short key lengths
Owner of the information asset
Defining high-level business security requirements
Security risk
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.
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Creation of a business continuity plan
Two-factor authentication
45. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Regulatory compliance
Fault-tolerant computer
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
46. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
Methodology used in the assessment
Developing an information security baseline
Calculating the value of the information or asset
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.
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
Prioritization
Risk appetite
Aligned with organizational goals
48. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.
Centralized structure
Asset classification
Creation of a business continuity plan
Retention of business records
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.
Asset classification
What happened and how the breach was resolved
Transferred risk
Logon banners
50. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory
Breakeven point of risk reduction and cost
Detection defenses
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Knowledge management