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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 effective approach to address issues that arise between IT management - business units and security management when implementing a new security strategy is for the information security manager to ____________________ with any security recomm






2. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






3. The security manager would be most concerned with whether _____________________ than the cost of adding additional controls.






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Responsible for securing the information.






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






10. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






11. Should PRIMARILY be based on regulatory and legal requirements.






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






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






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






15. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






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






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






18. Carries out the technical administration.






19. Allows you to use field security personnel as security missionaries or ambassadors to spread the security awareness message. It allows security administrators to be more responsive.






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






25. 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.






26. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






27. Inject malformed input.






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






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






30. Provides strong online authentication.






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






32. Culture has a significant impact on how information security will be implemented in a ______________________.






33. 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.






34. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.