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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. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
CISO
elcomsoft
AS/NZS 4360
2. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
risk analysis
performance baseline
chief information security officer
security governanace
3. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately
usage
COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
4. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
escalation
integrity
exposure factor
chief information security officer
5. CISO
firewall
chief information security officer
administrative
ISO 17799
6. 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
confidentiality
ISO 17799
CobiT
L0phtCrack
7. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
security program
delayed
usage
countermeasure
8. Information security managment measurements
ISO/IEC 27004
vulnerability scanner
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
CobiT
9. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
vulnerability
CobiT
usage
penetration
10. Strategic - tactical and operational planning
single loss expectancy
planning horizon
countermeasure
risk analysis
11. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
security program
confidentiality
BS7799
administrative
12. Derived from the COSO framework
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
escalation
CobiT
Information Security Management
13. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
vulnerability
SP 800-30
port scanner
OVAL
14. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
port scanner
network mapping
elcomsoft
15. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
ISO/IEC 27001
elcomsoft
delayed
protocol analyzer
16. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
single loss expectancy
CISO
FMEA
performance monitor
17. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
data owner
risk analysis
CISO
security officer
18. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat
exposure
vulnerability scanner
single loss expectancy
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
19. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
risk
exposure
physical
BS7799
20. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
ITIL
risk mitigation
usage
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
21. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
BS7799
privilege
availability
administrative
22. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
threat
COSO
IRM
ISO/IEC 27005
23. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
security officer
vulnerability
privilege
AS/NZS 4360
24. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
L0phtCrack
FMEA
security program
ISO 17799
25. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
Information Security Management
planning horizon
integrity
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
26. Potential danger to information or systems
CobiT
chief information security officer
threat
COSO
27. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
single loss expectancy
risk catagories
vulnerability scanner
operational
28. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
tactical
fault tree analysis
administrative
security program
29. Midterm goals
john the ripper
COSO
tactical
vulnerability
30. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
COSO
physical
annualized loss expectancy
exposure
31. FRAP
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
threat
ISO/IEC 27002
administrative
32. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering
strategic
annualized rate of occurrence
security program
FMEA
33. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
network mapping
AS/NZS 4360
vulnerability
34. OCTAVE
firewall
elcomsoft
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
35. Corporate governance at the strategic level
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
COSO
due care
IRM
36. ISM Standard
penetration
ISO 17799
Information Security Management
physical
37. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
data owner
security governanace
blueprints
CISO
38. Mitigates a potential risk
countermeasure
security program
vulnerability
IRM
39. COSO
firewall
OVAL
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
ITIL
40. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
CISO
risk anlysis
elcomsoft
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
41. NIST risk management methodology
network mapping
SP 800-30
L0phtCrack
COSO
42. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
fault tree analysis
COSO
ISO/IEC 27799
elcomsoft
43. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
IRM
risk analysis
CobiT
strategic
44. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
administrative
privilege
AS/NZS 4360
delayed
45. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
integrity
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27005
blueprints
46. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
risk mitigation
COSO
security officer
protocol analyzer
47. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
administrative
port scanner
ISO 17799
FRAP
48. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
AS/NZS 4360
availability
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
49. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements
FMEA
Information risk management
performance baseline
administrative
50. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
OVAL
escalation
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
integrity