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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.






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






3. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






12. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly






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






14. 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






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






16. S small warehouse - designed for the end-user needs in a strategic business unit






17. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. When considering the value of assets ______________________ would give the information security manager the MOST objective basis for measurement of value delivery in information security governance






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






31. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






33. 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. .






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






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






36. 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 -






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






38. 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.






39. Provides an additional security mechanism over and above that provided by passwords alone. This is frequently used by mobile users needing to establish connectivity to a corporate network.






40. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen - the ______________________ matters most in determining the impact of the loss.






41. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.






42. The MOST useful way to describe the objectives in the information security strategy is through ______________________.

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






44. 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.






45. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






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






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






48. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






49. 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 _____________.






50. The weakest link in security implementation - and awareness would reduce this risk. Through security awareness and training programs - individual employees can be informed and sensitized on various security policies and other security topics - thus e