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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. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






2. 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.






3. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






4. Accesses a computer or network illegally






5. Occurs when the incoming level






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. There is a time lag between the time when a security vulnerability is first published - and the time when a patch is delivered. - The best protection is to _____________________ until a patch is installed.






13. Provides strong online authentication.






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






17. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






18. 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.






19. Provide metrics to which outsourcing firms can be held accountable.






20. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






21. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.






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






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






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






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






26. The _____________________ should be the person with the decision-making power in the department deriving the most benefit from the asset.






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






28. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






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






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






31. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.






32. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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

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42. 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 -






43. 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. .






44. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.






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






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






47. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






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






50. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.