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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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1. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






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






5. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






7. Most effective in providing reasonable assurance of physical access compliance to an unmanned server room controlled with biometric devices.






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






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






10. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.






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






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






13. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






14. 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.






15. Also required to guarantee fulfillment of laws and regulations of the organization and - therefore - the information security manager will be obligated to comply with the law.






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






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






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






19. Accesses a computer or network illegally






20. 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 -






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






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






23. Responsible for securing the information.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. The starting point for driving management's attention to information security. All other choices will follow the risk assessment.






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






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






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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons






44. An information security manager has to impress upon the human resources department the need for _____________________.






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






46. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






48. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






49. 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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50. 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







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