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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The MOST important component of a privacy policy is: A Privacy policies must contain _______________; they are a high-level management statement of direction. They do not necessarily address warranties - liabilities or geographic coverage - which are






2. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.






3. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






4. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






5. Uses security metrics to measure the performance of the information security program.






6. Will prevent unauthorized access to the laptop even when the laptop is lost or stolen.






7. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






8. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.






9. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






10. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit






11. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






12. Also required to guarantee fulfillment of laws and regulations of the organization and - therefore - the information security manager will be obligated to comply with the law.






13. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






14. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.






15. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.






16. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






17. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.






18. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.






19. A key indicator of performance measurement.






20. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






21. Lists only the vulnerabilities inherent in the information asset that can attract threats. It does not consider the value of the asset and the impact of perceived threats on the value.






22. A notice that guarantees a user or a web site is legitimate






23. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.






24. Accesses a computer or network illegally






25. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






26. The weakest link in security implementation - and awareness would reduce this risk. Through security awareness and training programs - individual employees can be informed and sensitized on various security policies and other security topics - thus e






27. Cannot be minimized






28. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.






29. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.






30. The BEST way to justify the implementation of a _____________________ is to use a business case. Return on investment (ROI) would only provide the costs needed to preclude specific risks - and would not provide other indirect benefits such as process






31. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.






32. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.






33. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen - the ______________________ matters most in determining the impact of the loss.






34. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






35. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






36. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






37. Awareness training would most likely result in any attempted ____________ being challenged by the authorized employee






38. The MOST effective approach to address issues that arise between IT management - business units and security management when implementing a new security strategy is for the information security manager to ____________________ with any security recomm






39. Inject malformed input.






40. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






41. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






42. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






43. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.






44. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






45. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






46. Allows you to use field security personnel as security missionaries or ambassadors to spread the security awareness message. It allows security administrators to be more responsive.






47. There is a time lag between the time when a security vulnerability is first published - and the time when a patch is delivered. - The best protection is to _____________________ until a patch is installed.






48. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.






49. A tool to be used in internal control assessment. KRI setup presents a threshold to alert management when controls are being compromised in business processes. This is a control tool rather than a maturity model support tool.






50. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.