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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Responsible for securing the information.






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






3. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






4. 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.






5. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability






6. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons






7. Only valid if assets have first been identified and appropriately valued.






8. An information security manager has to impress upon the human resources department the need for _____________________.






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






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






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






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






13. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






14. 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.






15. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






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






17. Requires a process to verify that the control process worked as intended. Examples such as dual-control or dual-entry bookkeeping provide verification and assurance that the process operated as intended.






18. Using public key infrastructure (PKI) is currently accepted as the most secure method to _____________.






19. 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






20. Occurs when the incoming level






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






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






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






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






25. In order to highlight to management the importance of network security - the security manager should FIRST _______________.






26. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






28. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






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






30. 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 _____________.






31. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






33. 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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.






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






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






44. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. The BEST justification to convince management to invest in an information security program is that doing so would _________________.






50. 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