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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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 -






3. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






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






5. 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.






6. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






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






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






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






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






11. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






13. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.






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






15. provides the most effective protection of data on mobile devices.






16. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.






17. Are not infallible. When tuning the solution - one has to adjust the sensitivity level to give preference either to false reject rate (type I error rate) where the system will be more prone to err denying access to a valid user or erring and allowing






18. 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.






19. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.


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






21. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






23. 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






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






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






26. Carries out the technical administration.






27. 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.






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






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






30. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






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






32. A method for analyzing and reducing a relational database to its most streamlined form






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






34. 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.






35. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






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






37. A repository of historical data organized by subject to support decision makers in the org






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






39. 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.






40. 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






41. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.






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






43. 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.






44. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






45. Inject malformed input.






46. Accesses a computer or network illegally






47. n a _________________________ - the annual cost of safeguards is compared with the expected cost of loss. This can then be used to justify a specific control measure.






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






49. 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






50. Provides strong online authentication.