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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A key indicator of performance measurement.






2. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






4. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. The most important characteristic of good security policies is that they be ____________________.






13. Accesses a computer or network illegally






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






15. A method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form






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






17. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






19. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






20. The starting point for driving management's attention to information security. All other choices will follow the risk assessment.






21. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






22. 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.






23. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






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






25. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






26. 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.






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






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






29. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






30. 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.






31. Cannot be minimized






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






33. 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






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






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






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

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






38. 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






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






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






41. Responsible for securing the information.






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






43. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.






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






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






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






47. Occurs when the incoming level






48. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






49. Would reduce the possibility of an individual accidentally pressing the power button on a device - thereby turning off the device.






50. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org