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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion






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






3. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






4. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company






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






6. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats






7. OCTAVE






8. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.






9. FRAP






10. IT governance at the operational level






11. Midterm goals






12. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting






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






14. ISM Standard






15. COSO






16. SLE x ARO - (ALE)






17. NIST risk management methodology






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






19. CISO






20. CSO






21. Collection of controls an organization must have in place






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






23. Security policy - map business objectives to security - Security infrastructure - security officer - reviews - Assest classification/control - inventory - Personnel security - screening - training - roles - Physical security - Communication/operation






24. IRM






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






26. Responsible for information classification and protection






27. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)






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






29. Potential danger to information or systems






30. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






31. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)






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






33. FMEA






34. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security






35. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure






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






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






38. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach






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






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






41. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






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






43. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment






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






45. Mitigates a potential risk






46. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk






47. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers






48. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost






49. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential






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