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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.
Data owners
The board of directors and senior management
Return on security investment (ROSI)
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
2. 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.
Transmit e-mail messages
Threat assessment
Requirements of the data owners
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
3. 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.
Consensus on risks and controls
Equal error rate (EER)
Vulnerability assessment
Security code reviews for the entire software application
4. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally
Hacker
Creation of a business continuity plan
Control effectiveness
IP address packet filtering
5. 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.
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Attributes and characteristics of the 'desired state'
Performing a risk assessment
6. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.
Defining high-level business security requirements
Cyber terrorist
Malicious software and spyware
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
7. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions
Knowledge management
Personal firewall
Equal error rate (EER)
Proficiency testing
8. To improve the security governance framework and achieve a higher level of maturity _____________________ is most important.
Proficiency testing
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
9. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.
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10. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.
Residual risk
OBusiness case development
Data classification
Key controls
11. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory
People
Is willing to accept
Knowledge management
Background checks of prospective employees
12. Inject malformed input.
Cross-site scripting attacks
Methodology used in the assessment
Biometric access control systems
Proficiency testing
13. 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 -
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Gap analysis
Information contained on the equipment
Digital certificate
14. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.
Is willing to accept
Threat assessment
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Creation of a business continuity plan
15. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability
Security risk
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
16. 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.
Decentralization
Monitoring processes
All personnel
Security baselines
17. 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. .
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
Alignment with business strategy
include security responsibilities in a job description
Biometric access control systems
18. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.
Digital signatures
Audit objectives
Biometric access control systems
Data warehouse
19. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail
Exceptions to policy
Audit objectives
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
Fault-tolerant computer
20. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.
The authentication process is broken
Developing an information security baseline
All personnel
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
21. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.
Waterfall chart
Well-defined roles and responsibilities
Encryption key management
Developing an information security baseline
22. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org
Multinational organization
A network vulnerability assessment
Audit objectives
Data warehouse
23. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
IP address packet filtering
Logon banners
24. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information
Owner of the information asset
Phishing
Safeguards over keys
Deeper level of analysis
25. Will associate data access with the role performed by an individual - thus restricting access to data required to perform the individual's tasks.
Skills inventory
Digital certificate
Role-based policy
Single sign-on (SSO) product
26. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.
Process of introducing changes to systems
Personal firewall
Cyber terrorist
Proficiency testing
27. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.
Worm
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Acceptable use policies
28. 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 _____________.
Intrusion detection system (IDS)
The authentication process is broken
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
Defining high-level business security requirements
29. Responsible for securing the information.
Logon banners
Well-defined roles and responsibilities
The data custodian
Multinational organization
30. 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.
Regular review of access control lists
Role-based access control
Increase business value and confidence
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
31. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons
Detection defenses
Cyber terrorist
Overall organizational structure
What happened and how the breach was resolved
32. 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.
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
Regulatory compliance
0-day vulnerabilities
IP address packet filtering
33. A key indicator of performance measurement.
Performing a risk assessment
Key risk indicator (KRI) setup
Inherent risk
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
34. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.
Access control matrix
Owner of the information asset
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
Process of introducing changes to systems
35. The job of the information security officer on a management team is to ___________________.
Rule-based access control
Owner of the information asset
Assess the risks to the business operation
Malicious software and spyware
36. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.
Spoofing attacks
Two-factor authentication
Use of security metrics
Safeguards over keys
37. 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.
Inherent risk
include security responsibilities in a job description
Return on security investment (ROSI)
Internal risk assessment
38. 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.
Worm
Creation of a business continuity plan
Encryption key management
Control risk
39. Occurs when the electrical supply drops
Undervoltage (brownout)
Alignment with business strategy
Annual loss expectancy (ALE)calculations
Stress testing
40. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.
Consensus on risks and controls
Virus detection
People
The balanced scorecard
41. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.
Examples of containment defenses
Exceptions to policy
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Prioritization
42. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
People
Safeguards over keys
Gain unauthorized access to applications
43. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
Intrusion detection system (IDS)
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Increase business value and confidence
44. 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.
Support the business objectives of the organization
Virus detection
Vulnerability assessment
All personnel
45. 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
Decentralization
Deeper level of analysis
Lack of change management
Biometric access control systems
46. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.
Confidentiality
Applying the proper classification to the data
The board of directors and senior management
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
47. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.
Owner of the information asset
Threat assessment
Data owners
Methodology used in the assessment
48. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.
Retention of business records
Security risk
Asset classification
Personal firewall
49. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
Owner of the information asset
Consensus on risks and controls
Security baselines
50. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.
0-day vulnerabilities
Inherent risk
Process of introducing changes to systems
Creation of a business continuity plan