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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The MOST important element of an information security strategy.






2. 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






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






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






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






6. Carries out the technical administration.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Most effective in protecting classified data that have been encrypted to prevent disclosure and transmission outside the organization's network.






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






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






22. btaining senior management support for establishing a warm site can BEST be accomplished by ____________________ - including a cost-benefit analysis - will be most persuasive to management. A risk assessment may be included in the business case - but






23. Provide minimum recommended settings and do not prevent introduction of control weaknesses.'






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






25. 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






26. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions






27. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






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






30. Can be a standalone driver for an information security governance measure. No further analysis nor justification is required since the entity has no choice in the regulatory requirements.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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 -






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






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






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






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






43. It is more efficient to establish a ___________________for locations that must meet specific requirements.






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






45. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.






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






47. Results in greater uniformity and better adherence to security policies. It is generally less expensive to administer due to the economies of scale. However - turnaround can be slower due to the lack of alignment with business units.






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






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






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