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






2. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






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






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






5. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






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






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






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






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






10. The MOST important component of a privacy policy is: A Privacy policies must contain _______________; they are a high-level management statement of direction. They do not necessarily address warranties - liabilities or geographic coverage - which are






11. 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






12. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.






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






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

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






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






17. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons






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






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






20. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.

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






22. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






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






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






25. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






27. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






28. 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.






29. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






30. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






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






32. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






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






34. A key indicator of performance measurement.






35. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.






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






37. 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.






38. Effective and efficient in large user communities because it controls system access by the roles defined for groups of users. Users are assigned to the various roles and the system controls the access based on those roles.






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. A notice that guarantees a user or a web site is legitimate






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






45. Occurs when the incoming level






46. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.






47. Inject malformed input.






48. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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