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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
protocol analyzer
ISO/IEC 27002
risk analysis
L0phtCrack
2. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
FRAP
physical
Information risk management
risk analysis
3. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
performance baseline
security program
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
due care
4. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
exposure
risk mitigation
confidentiality
exposure factor
5. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
ITIL
port scanner
annualized loss expectancy
COSO
6. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
elcomsoft
corporate security officer
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
blueprints
7. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
performance baseline
countermeasure
fault tree analysis
8. IT governance at the operational level
privilege
CobiT
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
john the ripper
9. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
SP 800-30
FRAP
delayed
risk anlysis
10. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
qualitative
vulnerability
planning horizon
security governanace
11. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
OCTAVE
ITIL
protocol analyzer
port scanner
12. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
risk mitigation
john the ripper
ISO 17799
risk catagories
13. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
ISO/IEC 27004
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
ISO/IEC 27005
14. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
CISO
risk
elcomsoft
ISO 17799
15. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
network mapping
SP 800-30
security program
countermeasure
16. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
risk analysis
ISO 17799
performance monitor
FRAP
17. COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
delayed
CobiT
COSO
18. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
ISO/IEC 27004
vulnerability scanner
availability
FMEA
19. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
administrative
FRAP
Information Security Management
CISO
20. CobiT
availability
fault tree analysis
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
CISO
21. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
IRM
COSO
security program
risk
22. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited
vulnerability
physical
CISO
security officer
23. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
tactical
CISO
OVAL
operational
24. NIST risk management methodology
SP 800-30
elcomsoft
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
planning horizon
25. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
administrative
CobiT
risk
OVAL
26. Information security managment measurements
physical
threat
security officer
ISO/IEC 27004
27. Corporate governance at the strategic level
elcomsoft
FMEA
COSO
risk mitigation
28. A tool that maps weaknesses of systems / networks by scanning for ports - checking for applications - determining OS and patch level - and attempting exploits
annualized rate of occurrence
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27004
vulnerability scanner
29. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
performance monitor
corporate security officer
ISO 17799
security program
30. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
physical
vulnerability
risk mitigation
ISO 17799
31. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
OVAL
security governanace
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
chief information security officer
32. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
security program
ISO/IEC 27002
firewall
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
33. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
COSO
security program
ISO/IEC 27001
risk
34. Derived from the COSO framework
CobiT
network mapping
performance baseline
vulnerability
35. CSO
corporate security officer
vulnerability
confidentiality
COSO
36. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
SP 800-30
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
ITIL
port scanner
37. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers
security governanace
vulnerability
strategic
single loss expectancy
38. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
ISO/IEC 27002
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
elcomsoft
network mapping
39. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
FRAP
security governanace
COSO
annualized rate of occurrence
40. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
CobiT
IRM
risk analysis
operational
41. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
ISO 17799
security governanace
FRAP
ISO/IEC 27002
42. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
CobiT
annualized loss expectancy
physical
CISO
43. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
privilege
risk
vulnerability
availability
44. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
availability
delayed
COSO
ISO/IEC 27005
45. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
escalation
OCTAVE
port scanner
mappers
46. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
risk
COSO
ITIL
risk analysis
47. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
BS7799
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
operational
48. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
security governanace
vulnerability scanner
qualitative
mappers
49. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
CobiT
blueprints
AS/NZS 4360
OVAL
50. 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)
protocol analyzer
annualized rate of occurrence
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27799