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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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






2. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






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






4. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. Results in greater uniformity and better adherence to security policies. It is generally less expensive to administer due to the economies of scale. However - turnaround can be slower due to the lack of alignment with business units.






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






20. Inject malformed input.






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






32. 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.






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






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






35. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.






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






37. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.






38. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.






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






40. Responsible for securing the information.






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






42. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.






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






44. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






45. 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






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






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






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






49. Has full responsibility over data.






50. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations







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