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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.






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






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






4. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






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






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






7. 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.






8. Lists only the threats that the information asset is exposed to. It does not consider the value of the asset and impact of the threat on the value.






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






10. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.






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






12. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






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






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






15. 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






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






17. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. Responsible for securing the information.






23. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






24. An information security manager has to impress upon the human resources department the need for _____________________.






25. 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.






26. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






29. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






30. Accesses a computer or network illegally






31. 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






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






33. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






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






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






36. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






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






39. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






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






47. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






48. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.






49. 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 -






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