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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






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






3. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






4. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit






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






6. The most critical process for deciding which part of the information system/business process should be given prioritization in case of a security incident.It provides results - such as impact from a security incident and required response times.






7. 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






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






9. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






10. Has full responsibility over data.






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






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






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






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






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






16. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.






17. 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.






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






19. Responsible for securing the information.






20. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge






21. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






33. 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






34. _______________ of the organization have the responsibility of ensuring information systems security this can include indirect personnel such as physical security personnel.






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






36. Provides strong online authentication.






37. Residual risk is unmanaged - i.e. - inherent risk which remains uncontrolled. This is key to the organization's _____________ and is the amount of residual risk that a business is living with that affects its viability.






38. 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.






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






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






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. 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.






43. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






44. 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.






45. 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.






46. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






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






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






50. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.