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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Most effective for evaluating the degree to which information security objectives are being met.
Rule-based access control
Background checks of prospective employees
The balanced scorecard
Lack of change management
2. Whenever personal data are transferred across national boundaries; ________________________ are required.
Requirements of the data owners
Key controls
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
Risk appetite
3. Should be performed to identify the risk and determine needed controls.
Script kiddie
Power surge/over voltage (spike)
Internal risk assessment
Control effectiveness
4. The starting point for driving management's attention to information security. All other choices will follow the risk assessment.
OBusiness case development
Service level agreements (SLAs)
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
5. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.
Penetration testing
Decentralization
Protective switch covers
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
6. 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.
Defined objectives
Spoofing attacks
Alignment with business strategy
Decentralization
7. _________________________ will allow the information security manager to prioritize the remedial measures and provide a means to convey a sense of urgency to management.
Waterfall chart
Performing a risk assessment
Normalization
Equal error rate (EER)
8. Program that hides within or looks like a legit program
Trojan horse
Residual risk
The awareness and agreement of the data subjects
IP address packet filtering
9. Ultimately responsible for all that happens in the organization. The others are not individually liable for failures of security in the organization.
Consensus on risks and controls
Patch management process
Residual risk
The board of directors and senior management
10. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.
Prioritization
Support the business objectives of the organization
Security baselines
Information security manager
11. When developing an information security program _________________ would help identify the available resources - any gaps and the training requirements for developing resources.
Single sign-on (SSO) product
Negotiating a local version of the organization standards
Skills inventory
Encryption key management
12. When the ________________ is more than the cost of the risk - the risk should be accepted.
The balanced scorecard
Knowledge management
Cost of control
Information contained on the equipment
13. 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
Digital signatures
Encryption
Biometric access control systems
Asset classification
14. 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 _____________.
The authentication process is broken
Background checks of prospective employees
Defining high-level business security requirements
A network vulnerability assessment
15. It is important to achieve ____________________ - and obtain inputs from various organizational entities since security needs to be aligned to the needs of the organization.
Access control matrix
Risk assessment - evaluation and impact analysis
Consensus on risks and controls
All personnel
16. Utility program that detects and protects a personal computer from unauthorized intrusions
Two-factor authentication
Cross-site scripting attacks
Personal firewall
Patch management process
17. 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.
Monitoring processes
Overall organizational structure
Data owners
Protective switch covers
18. All within the responsibility of the information security manager.
The information security officer
Platform security - intrusion detection and antivirus controls
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
IP address packet filtering
19. Has full responsibility over data.
Role-based policy
The data owner
Control risk
Applying the proper classification to the data
20. 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.
Creation of a business continuity plan
Tailgating
Calculating the value of the information or asset
OBusiness case development
21. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.
Asset classification
Access control matrix
Annually or whenever there is a significant change
Do with the information it collects
22. 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
Data classification
Cyber extortionist
Examples of containment defenses
Is willing to accept
23. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps
Logon banners
Data isolation
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
0-day vulnerabilities
24. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.
Encryption
A network vulnerability assessment
Normalization
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
25. Senior management commitment and support for information security can BEST be obtained through presentations that ____________________.
Spoofing attacks
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
Tie security risks to key business objectives
26. The risk that remains after putting into place an effective risk management program; therefore - acceptable risk is achieved when this amount is minimized.
Intrusion detection system (IDS)
Cryptographic secure sockets layer (SSL) implementations and short key lengths
BIA (Business Impact Assessment
Residual risk
27. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.
The authentication process is broken
Control effectiveness
Malicious software and spyware
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
28. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail
Fault-tolerant computer
Role-based access control
The balanced scorecard
Attributes and characteristics of the 'desired state'
29. Change management controls the _____________________. This is often the point at which a weakness will be introduced.
Patch management process
Regulatory compliance
Process of introducing changes to systems
Tailgating
30. Only valid if assets have first been identified and appropriately valued.
Cyber extortionist
Undervoltage (brownout)
Annual loss expectancy (ALE)calculations
OBusiness case development
31. Would protect against spoofing an internal address but would not provide strong authentication.
Data owners
The balanced scorecard
IP address packet filtering
Centralized structure
32. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.
Stress testing
Examples of containment defenses
MAL wear
Trusted source
33. Responsible for assigning user entitlements and approving access to the systems for which they are responsible.
Deeper level of analysis
Security baselines
Data owners
Cyber extortionist
34. Information security architecture should always be _______________________. Alignment with IT plans or industry and security best practices is secondary by comparison.
Vulnerability assessment
Cyber extortionist
Applying the proper classification to the data
Properly aligned with business goals and objectives
35. Needs to define the access rules - which is troublesome and error prone in large organizations.
Total cost of ownership (TCO)
Normalization
Rule-based access control
Calculating the value of the information or asset
36. An organization without any formal information security program should start with _______________________ because the implementation should be based on those security requirements.
Countermeasure cost-benefit analysis
Penetration testing
Defining high-level business security requirements
Cyber terrorist
37. Company or person you believe will not send a virus-infect file knowingly
Control effectiveness
Trusted source
Undervoltage (brownout)
Service level agreements (SLAs)
38. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.
Risk appetite
Developing an information security baseline
Regulatory compliance
Role-based policy
39. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.
Encryption of the hard disks
Process of introducing changes to systems
Waterfall chart
Risk management and the requirements of the organization
40. Occurs after the risk assessment process - it does not measure it.
0-day vulnerabilities
Assess the risks to the business operation
Use of security metrics
Lack of change management
41. Involves the correction of software weaknesses and would necessarily follow change management procedures.
Skills inventory
Patch management
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
Continuous monitoring control initiatives
42. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.
Detection defenses
Virus detection
Decentralization
Requirements of the data owners
43. 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 -
Gap analysis
Residual risk
The information security officer
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
44. 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
Notifications and opt-out provisions
Centralized structure
Performing a risk assessment
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
45. 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
Threat assessment
The board of directors and senior management
People
Data isolation
46. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.
Biometric access control systems
Its ability to reduce or eliminate business risks
Notifications and opt-out provisions
Script kiddie
47. Logging as well as monitoring - measuring - auditing - detecting viruses and intrusion.
Compliance with the organization's information security requirements
Continuous analysis - monitoring and feedback
SWOT analysis
Detection defenses
48. 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.
Residual risk would be reduced by a greater amount
Malicious software and spyware
Reduce risk to an acceptable level
The board of directors and senior management
49. Occurs when the electrical supply drops
Undervoltage (brownout)
Process of introducing changes to systems
Conduct a risk assessment
Rule-based access control
50. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.
Resource dependency assessment
Impractical and is often cost-prohibitive
Decentralization
Transferred risk