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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.
Residual risk
Detection defenses
Consensus on risks and controls
Background checks of prospective employees
2. Has full responsibility over data.
Background check
The data owner
Resource dependency assessment
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
3. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.
Patch management process
Attributes and characteristics of the 'desired state'
Cost of control
The information security officer
4. A key indicator of performance measurement.
Developing an information security baseline
Gain unauthorized access to applications
Prioritization
Strategic alignment of security with business objectives
5. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.
Regular review of access control lists
Prioritization
Digital signatures
Trusted source
6. A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that is part of the orgs. memory
Cross-site scripting attacks
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Knowledge management
Exceptions to policy
7. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.
Support the business objectives of the organization
Increase business value and confidence
Developing an information security baseline
Encryption
8. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly
The authentication process is broken
Well-defined roles and responsibilities
Trojan horse
Trusted source
9. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.
Equal error rate (EER)
Performing a risk assessment
Virus
Get senior management onboard
10. Same intent as a cracker but does not have the technical skills and knowledge
The balanced scorecard
Script kiddie
Key controls
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
11. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Assess the risks to the business operation
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
12. 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
Lack of change management
Residual risk
Virus detection
Detection defenses
13. 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.
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
Detection defenses
Trusted source
Knowledge management
14. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.
Key risk indicator (KRI) setup
Intrusion detection system (IDS)
Rule-based access control
Defining high-level business security requirements
15. 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.
Threat assessment
Acceptable use policies
SWOT analysis
Well-defined roles and responsibilities
16. 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.
Skills inventory
Risk appetite
Script kiddie
Monitoring processes
17. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Cryptographic secure sockets layer (SSL) implementations and short key lengths
18. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Use of security metrics
Conduct a risk assessment
All personnel
19. 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
Two-factor authentication
Applying the proper classification to the data
Notifications and opt-out provisions
Equal error rate (EER)
20. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail
Asset classification
Applying the proper classification to the data
Fault-tolerant computer
Centralization of information security management
21. The starting point for driving management's attention to information security. All other choices will follow the risk assessment.
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Digital certificate
Audit objectives
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
22. 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
Spoofing attacks
Data mart
Get senior management onboard
Risk appetite
23. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.
Conduct a risk assessment
Data owners
Information security manager
0-day vulnerabilities
24. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations
Key controls
Developing an information security baseline
MAL wear
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
25. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.
Breakeven point of risk reduction and cost
Owner of the information asset
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
The board of directors and senior management
26. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.
The balanced scorecard
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
Overall organizational structure
Cost of control
27. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.
Exceptions to policy
People
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Malicious software and spyware
28. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.
Safeguards over keys
Phishing
The balanced scorecard
Get senior management onboard
29. Most effective in providing reasonable assurance of physical access compliance to an unmanned server room controlled with biometric devices.
Regular review of access control lists
Lack of change management
Data classification
Defined objectives
30. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.
People
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Rule-based access control
Digital certificate
31. Attackers who exploit weak application authentication controls can ___________________ and this has little to do with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.
Consensus on risks and controls
Do with the information it collects
Gain unauthorized access to applications
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
32. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.
Data owners
Access control matrix
Tie security risks to key business objectives
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
33. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Cyber extortionist
Virus
Patch management
34. 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.
Performing a risk assessment
Transmit e-mail messages
The information security officer
Risk appetite
35. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Patch management process
Confidentiality
Do with the information it collects
36. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.
Cryptographic secure sockets layer (SSL) implementations and short key lengths
Return on security investment (ROSI)
Safeguards over keys
Applying the proper classification to the data
37. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program
Monitoring processes
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
Tailgating
Trojan horse
38. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.
Security code reviews for the entire software application
Consensus on risks and controls
Residual risk
Spoofing attacks
39. 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.
Two-factor authentication
Certificate authority (CA)
Confidentiality
Trojan horse
40. 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.
Key risk indicator (KRI) setup
Gain unauthorized access to applications
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Encryption
41. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally
Hacker
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
Increase business value and confidence
42. The information security manager needs to prioritize the controls based on ________________________.
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
Security baselines
Support the business objectives of the organization
43. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions
Background checks of prospective employees
The authentication process is broken
Confidentiality
Personal firewall
44. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.
Defining and ratifying the classification structure of information assets
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
Calculating the value of the information or asset
Trusted source
45. 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
Lack of change management
Equal error rate (EER)
Process of introducing changes to systems
Data classification
46. The risk that controls may not prevent/detect an incident with a measure of control effectiveness.
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
Centralized structure
Information security manager
Control risk
47. 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.
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
Identify the vulnerable systems and apply compensating controls
Undervoltage (brownout)
The information security officer
48. Accesses a computer or network illegally
Information contained on the equipment
The data owner
Defining high-level business security requirements
Cracker
49. 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
Biometric access control systems
Applying the proper classification to the data
Internal risk assessment
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
50. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability
Penetration testing
Security risk
Detection defenses
Undervoltage (brownout)