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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The best indicator of the level of compliance with the service level agreement ( SLA ) data confidentiality clauses.






2. Occurs when the incoming level






3. Has full responsibility over data.






4. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






5. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






6. 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






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






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






9. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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. 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 -






12. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






13. BEST option to improve accountability for a system administrator is to _____________________.






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. 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.






16. Would reduce the possibility of an individual accidentally pressing the power button on a device - thereby turning off the device.






17. 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 _____________.






18. Useful but only with regard to specific technical skills.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






26. The weakest link in security implementation - and awareness would reduce this risk. Through security awareness and training programs - individual employees can be informed and sensitized on various security policies and other security topics - thus e






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






28. 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






29. 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.






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






31. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






32. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.






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






34. 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.






35. The MOST effective way to ensure network users are aware of their responsibilities to comply with an organization's security requirements is - ______________ would appear every time the user logs on - and the user would be required to read and agree






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






37. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.






38. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






40. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






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






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






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






44. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






45. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






46. Provides strong online authentication.






47. Inject malformed input.






48. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






49. Programs that act without a user's knowledge and deliberately alter a computer's operations






50. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.