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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. 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.






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






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






4. 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.






5. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.






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






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






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






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






10. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program






11. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.






12. 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 -






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






14. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






15. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






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






22. In biometric systems where the possibility of false rejects is a problem - it may be necessary to reduce sensitivity and thereby increase the number of false accepts.






23. 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.






24. The most relevant piece of information to include in a cost-benefit analysis of a two-factor authentication system - it would establish a cost baseline and it must be considered for the full life cycle of the control. .






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






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






27. 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.






28. Awareness - training and physical security defenses.






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






30. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






33. 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.






34. A function of the session keys distributed by the PKI.






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






42. Can be used to detect an external attack but would not help in authenticating a user attempting to connect.






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. 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