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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations






2. 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.






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






4. 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 -






5. Carries out the technical administration.






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






7. 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 _____________.






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






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






10. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






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






12. 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.






13. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






14. The MOST effective approach to address issues that arise between IT management - business units and security management when implementing a new security strategy is for the information security manager to ____________________ with any security recomm






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

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16. Cannot be minimized






17. 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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






23. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.






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






25. Someone who uses email as a vehicle for extortion; send company threatening emails indicating they will expose confidential information - exploit security launch - etc.






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






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






28. 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.






29. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






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






31. The BEST way to justify the implementation of a _____________________ is to use a business case. Return on investment (ROI) would only provide the costs needed to preclude specific risks - and would not provide other indirect benefits such as process






32. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.






33. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






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






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






36. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






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






38. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail






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






40. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.






41. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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