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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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






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






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






4. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






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






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






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






13. Provides an additional security mechanism over and above that provided by passwords alone. This is frequently used by mobile users needing to establish connectivity to a corporate network.






14. 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.






15. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.






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






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






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






19. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.






20. In biometric systems where the possibility of false rejects is a problem - it may be necessary to reduce sensitivity and thereby increase the number of false accepts.






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






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






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






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






25. Occurs when the incoming level






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. Cannot be minimized






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






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






38. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






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






40. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






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






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






43. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






44. In assessing the degree to which an organization may be affected by new privacy legislation - information security management should first _____________________.






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






46. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






47. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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48. The most important characteristic of good security policies is that they be ____________________.






49. 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.






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







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