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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. Responsible for securing the information.






2. Has full responsibility over data.






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






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






5. Also required to guarantee fulfillment of laws and regulations of the organization and - therefore - the information security manager will be obligated to comply with the law.






6. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






14. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.






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






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






31. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.






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






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






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






36. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






42. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






43. 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.






44. 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






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






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






47. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.






48. 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 _____________.






49. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






50. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.