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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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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. 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.






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






3. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






5. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.






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






7. 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






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






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






10. The MOST important element of the request for proposal (RFP) ro assess the maturity level of the organization's information security management is _______________________.






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






12. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






13. 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.






14. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.






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






16. Occurs when the incoming level






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.






22. 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.






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






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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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 -






29. 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.






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






31. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






32. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






33. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. A notice that guarantees a user or a web site is legitimate






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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