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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






2. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






3. Information security governance models are highly dependent on the _____________________.






4. Effective and efficient in large user communities because it controls system access by the roles defined for groups of users. Users are assigned to the various roles and the system controls the access based on those roles.






5. The MOST effective way to ensure network users are aware of their responsibilities to comply with an organization's security requirements is - ______________ would appear every time the user logs on - and the user would be required to read and agree






6. Accesses a computer or network illegally






7. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.






8. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.






9. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






10. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.






11. _______________ of the organization have the responsibility of ensuring information systems security this can include indirect personnel such as physical security personnel.






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






13. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






14. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.






15. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.






16. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






17. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






18. Provides strong online authentication.






19. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






20. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail






21. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.






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






23. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






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






25. Residual risk is unmanaged - i.e. - inherent risk which remains uncontrolled. This is key to the organization's _____________ and is the amount of residual risk that a business is living with that affects its viability.






26. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






27. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






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






29. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






30. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.






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






32. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






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






34. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






35. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






36. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory






37. Occurs when the incoming level






38. While useful for identifying the difference between the current state and the desired future state - e.g. organization has to comply with recently published industry regulatory requirements compliance that potentially has high implementation costs -






39. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.






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






41. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






42. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations






43. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






44. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






45. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.






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






47. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.






48. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






49. Because past performance is a strong predictor of future performance - _______________________ best prevents attacks from originating within an organization.






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