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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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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 is a very important process for the ___________________. Risk assessment provides information on the likelihood of occurrence of security incidence and assists in the selection of countermeasures - but not in the prioritization.






2. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.






3. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.






4. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






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






6. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






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






8. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






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






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






11. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.

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12. Occurs when the incoming level






13. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






14. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






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






16. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.






17. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






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






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






21. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.






22. btaining senior management support for establishing a warm site can BEST be accomplished by ____________________ - including a cost-benefit analysis - will be most persuasive to management. A risk assessment may be included in the business case - but






23. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.






24. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.






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






26. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






28. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






29. Are expensive - so they have to be used in areas where the risk is at its greatest level. These areas are the ones with high impact and high frequency of occurrence.






30. Determined by the business risk - i.e. - the potential impact on the business of the loss - corruption or disclosure of information. It must be applied to information in all forms - both electronic and physical (paper) - and should be applied by the






31. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.






32. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






33. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






34. Cannot be minimized






35. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






36. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works






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






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






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






40. 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 -






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






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






43. Has full responsibility over data.






44. Responsible for securing the information.






45. The PRIMARY goal in developing an information security strategy is to: _________________________.






46. 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






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






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






49. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






50. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.