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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. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
chief information security officer
fault tree analysis
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
qualitative
2. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers
strategic
mappers
OCTAVE
availability
3. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
performance monitor
usage
ISO/IEC 27799
protocol analyzer
4. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
OCTAVE
blueprints
exposure factor
single loss expectancy
5. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
ISO/IEC 27004
FMEA
countermeasure
protocol analyzer
6. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
fault tree analysis
penetration
vulnerability
performance monitor
7. OCTAVE
COSO
port scanner
qualitative
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
8. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
administrative
ISO 17799
network mapping
IRM
9. FRAP
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
Information Security Management
vulnerability
annualized rate of occurrence
10. IT governance at the operational level
mappers
CobiT
L0phtCrack
protocol analyzer
11. Midterm goals
FRAP
network mapping
tactical
risk analysis
12. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
ITIL
COSO
CobiT
usage
13. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks
annualized loss expectancy
network mapping
mappers
risk
14. ISM Standard
vulnerability
Information Security Management
ISO/IEC 27005
confidentiality
15. COSO
ISO 17799
COSO
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
FMEA
16. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
ISO 17799
annualized loss expectancy
planning horizon
fault tree analysis
17. NIST risk management methodology
ISO/IEC 27002
OVAL
corporate security officer
SP 800-30
18. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
security officer
blueprints
network mapping
mappers
19. CISO
BS7799
risk analysis
vulnerability scanner
chief information security officer
20. CSO
corporate security officer
data owner
risk analysis
network mapping
21. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
administrative
risk analysis
security program
22. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt
CobiT
security officer
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
network mapping
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
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
ITIL
ISO 17799
administrative
24. IRM
risk analysis
OCTAVE
Information risk management
BS7799
25. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering
FRAP
network mapping
FMEA
vulnerability scanner
26. Responsible for information classification and protection
data owner
vulnerability
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
security program
27. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
blueprints
ISO/IEC 27002
performance baseline
privilege
28. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
vulnerability
single loss expectancy
port scanner
vulnerability
29. Potential danger to information or systems
OCTAVE
CobiT
FRAP
threat
30. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
OCTAVE
security officer
BS7799
strategic
31. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
vulnerability
firewall
COSO
ISO/IEC 27001
32. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
firewall
ITIL
CISO
33. FMEA
COSO
data owner
ISO/IEC 27002
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
34. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
vulnerability scanner
BS7799
AS/NZS 4360
ISO/IEC 27002
35. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
chief information security officer
countermeasure
confidentiality
risk analysis
36. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
ISO 17799
CISO
exposure
chief information security officer
37. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
single loss expectancy
privilege
physical
risk analysis
38. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
due care
CobiT
security governanace
delayed
39. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
escalation
privilege
delayed
vulnerability
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
COSO
FMEA
technical
SP 800-30
41. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
due care
ISO/IEC 27004
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
integrity
42. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
operational
ISO 17799
mappers
network mapping
43. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
vulnerability
confidentiality
blueprints
performance baseline
44. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
risk analysis
COSO
ISO/IEC 27799
vulnerability
45. Mitigates a potential risk
countermeasure
FMEA
protocol analyzer
due care
46. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk
mappers
risk mitigation
FMEA
usage
47. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
ITIL
CobiT
qualitative
COSO
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
risk anlysis
escalation
ISO 17799
Information Security Management
49. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
technical
network mapping
COSO
risk
50. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
AS/NZS 4360
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
john the ripper
physical