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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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1. On a company's e-commerce web site - a good legal statement regarding data privacy should include a statement regarding what the company will ___________________.






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






3. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. Provides strong online authentication.






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






10. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






11. May show the performance result of the security related activities; however - the result is interpreted in terms of money and extends to multiple facets of security initiatives.






12. 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






13. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. Has full responsibility over data.






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Has to be integrated into the requirements of every software application's design.






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






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






30. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






32. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.






47. 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.






48. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.






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






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







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