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






2. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






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






4. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






5. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






6. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






7. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.






8. Most effective in providing reasonable assurance of physical access compliance to an unmanned server room controlled with biometric devices.






9. Inject malformed input.






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






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






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






13. n a _________________________ - the annual cost of safeguards is compared with the expected cost of loss. This can then be used to justify a specific control measure.






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






15. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.






16. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.






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






18. 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 -






19. 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.






20. A tool to be used in internal control assessment. KRI setup presents a threshold to alert management when controls are being compromised in business processes. This is a control tool rather than a maturity model support tool.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. A key indicator of performance measurement.






25. 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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






35. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen - the ______________________ matters most in determining the impact of the loss.






36. 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






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






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






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






40. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.






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






42. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.






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






44. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.






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






46. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






47. 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






48. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






49. Lists only the vulnerabilities inherent in the information asset that can attract threats. It does not consider the value of the asset and the impact of perceived threats on the value.






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