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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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1. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.
Digital signatures
Cyber extortionist
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Penetration testing
2. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.
Exceptions to policy
Transferred risk
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Security code reviews for the entire software application
3. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Deeper level of analysis
Personal firewall
Tie security risks to key business objectives
4. Responsible for securing the information.
Internal risk assessment
The data custodian
Cyber extortionist
Comparison of cost of achievement
5. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.
Equal error rate (EER)
Support the business objectives of the organization
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
6. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.
Worm
Proficiency testing
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Data warehouse
7. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.
Owner of the information asset
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Role-based policy
Data classification
8. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.
Stress testing
Hacker
Decentralization
Notifications and opt-out provisions
9. Provides process needs but not impact.
Internal risk assessment
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
Resource dependency assessment
Encryption of the hard disks
10. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.
Malicious software and spyware
Acceptable use policies
Key risk indicator (KRI) setup
Role-based access control
11. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.
Key controls
Monitoring processes
Centralized structure
Control risk
12. 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
Lack of change management
Data isolation
The data custodian
Use of security metrics
13. 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.
SWOT analysis
Security baselines
IP address packet filtering
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
14. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
Asset classification
Gain unauthorized access to applications
Cross-site scripting attacks
Stress testing
15. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.
Vulnerability assessment
The data custodian
Waterfall chart
Safeguards over keys
16. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.
Encryption of the hard disks
Methodology used in the assessment
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
17. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.
Performing a risk assessment
Regulatory compliance
Certificate authority (CA)
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
18. 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
Control risk
Process of introducing changes to systems
The authentication process is broken
Get senior management onboard
19. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.
Increase business value and confidence
Tie security risks to key business objectives
Key controls
Residual risk
20. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.
Get senior management onboard
Defined objectives
Confidentiality
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
21. Provides strong online authentication.
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
Virus
Security risk
Data classification
22. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally
Hacker
The balanced scorecard
Is willing to accept
Data isolation
23. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.
Digital certificate
Key controls
Centralization of information security management
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
24. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge
Centralization of information security management
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
Script kiddie
Internal risk assessment
25. 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
Normalization
Access control matrix
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Protective switch covers
26. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.
Encryption key management
Trusted source
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Lack of change management
27. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Applying the proper classification to the data
Logon banners
Service level agreements (SLAs)
28. Occurs when the electrical supply drops
Undervoltage (brownout)
Detection defenses
Security awareness training for all employees
Security risk
29. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Information security manager
Examples of containment defenses
Exceptions to policy
30. Carries out the technical administration.
Trusted source
The database administrator
Script kiddie
Cryptographic secure sockets layer (SSL) implementations and short key lengths
31. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.
Use of security metrics
Tailgating
Get senior management onboard
Virus
32. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Defined objectives
The balanced scorecard
Is willing to accept
33. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.
Background check
Baseline standard and then develop additional standards
include security responsibilities in a job description
Asset classification
34. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.
Encryption key management
Patch management process
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Process of introducing changes to systems
35. 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.
Control effectiveness
Control risk
Assess the risks to the business operation
Trusted source
36. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.
Penetration testing
Data classification
Identify the relevant systems and processes
Support the business objectives of the organization
37. Because past performance is a strong predictor of future performance - _______________________ best prevents attacks from originating within an organization.
Consensus on risks and controls
Patch management
Background checks of prospective employees
Multinational organization
38. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.
The authentication process is broken
Data classification
Is willing to accept
IP address packet filtering
39. By definition are not previously known and therefore are undetectable.
Digital certificate
Risk appetite
0-day vulnerabilities
Lack of change management
40. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.
The board of directors and senior management
SWOT analysis
Access control matrix
Deeper level of analysis
41. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Skills inventory
Multinational organization
Two-factor authentication
42. 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.
Waterfall chart
Creation of a business continuity plan
Do with the information it collects
Encryption
43. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.
Transferred risk
Security risk
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Consensus on risks and controls
44. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability
Support the business objectives of the organization
Do with the information it collects
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Security risk
45. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.
Residual risk
Notifications and opt-out provisions
Regular review of access control lists
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
46. 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 -
Gap analysis
Phishing
Centralized structure
Return on security investment (ROSI)
47. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.
Creation of a business continuity plan
Virus detection
Acceptable use policies
Alignment with business strategy
48. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail
Cracker
Is willing to accept
Personal firewall
Fault-tolerant computer
49. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.
People
Audit objectives
Encryption of the hard disks
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
50. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Developing an information security baseline
Assess the risks to the business operation
Notifications and opt-out provisions
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