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






2. 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.






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






4. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






6. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






17. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.






18. Provides process needs but not impact.






19. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






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






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






22. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






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






24. 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






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






26. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






27. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. To determine sensitivity of assets in terms of risk to the business operation so that proportional countermeasures can be effectively implemented.






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






41. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






42. The PRIMARY goal in developing an information security strategy is to: _________________________.






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. Inject malformed input.






48. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






49. Accesses a computer or network illegally






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