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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






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






4. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.

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5. Provides process needs but not impact.






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






7. If the firewall allows source routing - any outsider can carry out _________________ by stealing the internal (private) IP addresses of the organization.






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






9. 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






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






11. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.






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






13. n a _________________________ - the annual cost of safeguards is compared with the expected cost of loss. This can then be used to justify a specific control measure.






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






15. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






16. Legal document to be signed by all employees - suppliers etc before they 'touch' the organization - to protect the organization's intellectual property.






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






18. Has full responsibility over data.






19. Cannot be minimized






20. Risk should be reduced to a level that an organization _____________.






21. Provides strong online authentication.






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






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






24. The best measure for preventing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information.






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






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






27. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






28. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






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






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






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






32. Addresses strengths - weaknesses - opportunities and threats. Although useful - a SWOT analysis is not as effective a tool.






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






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






35. 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 -






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






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






38. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






45. Are expensive - so they have to be used in areas where the risk is at its greatest level. These areas are the ones with high impact and high frequency of occurrence.






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






47. 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.






48. The primary role of the information security manager in the process of information classification within the organization.






49. 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.






50. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.