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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt

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1. COSO






2. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control






3. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






4. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard






5. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server






6. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt






7. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






8. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned






9. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering






10. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards






11. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)






12. IRM






13. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements






14. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)






15. CSO






16. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs






17. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






18. Information security managment measurements






19. CobiT






20. Collection of controls an organization must have in place






21. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics






22. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion






23. Potential danger to information or systems






24. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach






25. FMEA






26. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations






27. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental






28. IT governance at the operational level






29. A tool that monitors network traffic - shows data and protocols in use - also known as a packet sniffer (i.e wireshark - TCPDump - Microsoft Network Monitor - Carnivore)






30. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________






31. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers






32. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






33. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond






34. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate






35. ISM Standard






36. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs






37. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat






38. An password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - rainbow tables - can test password strength and recover passwords - was originally free - but now a commercial product






39. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)






40. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential






41. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate






42. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited






43. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external






44. SLE x ARO - (ALE)






45. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management






46. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components






47. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks






48. Midterm goals






49. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners






50. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)