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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. Midterm goals






2. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration






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






4. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately






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






6. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






7. FMEA






8. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






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






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






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






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






13. Potential danger to information or systems






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






15. 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






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






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






18. Corporate governance at the strategic level






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






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






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






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






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






24. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






25. COSO






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






27. NIST risk management methodology






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






29. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






30. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate






31. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs






32. ISM Standard






33. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files






34. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage






35. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited






36. IRM






37. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error






38. 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)






39. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






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






41. Collection of controls an organization must have in place






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






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






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






45. Responsible for information classification and protection






46. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






47. 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






48. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes






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






50. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential