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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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






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






3. 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






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






6. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.






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






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






9. Risk should be reduced to a level that an organization _____________.






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.






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






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






17. An internal review of a web-based application system finds the ability to gain access to all employees' accounts by changing the employee's ID on the URL used for accessing the account. It means _____________.






18. 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.






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






20. 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






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






22. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.






23. The _____________________is a severe omission and will greatly increase information security risk. Presents the GREATEST information security risk for an organization with multiple - but small - domestic processing locations






24. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






25. A trusted third party that attests to the identity of the signatory - and reliance will be a function of the level of trust afforded the CA.






26. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






27. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






28. Inject malformed input.






29. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability






30. 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






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






32. The best strategy for risk management is to ___________________- as this will take into account the organization's appetite for risk and the fact that it would not be practical to eliminate all risk.






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






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






35. May show the performance result of the security related activities; however - the result is interpreted in terms of money and extends to multiple facets of security initiatives.






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






37. 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 -






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






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






40. By definition are not previously known and therefore are undetectable.






41. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.






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






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






44. Lists only the threats that the information asset is exposed to. It does not consider the value of the asset and impact of the threat on the value.






45. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions






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






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






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






49. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly






50. 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







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