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






2. Primarily reduce risk and are most effective for the protection of information assets.






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. Inject malformed input.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. Lists only the vulnerabilities inherent in the information asset that can attract threats. It does not consider the value of the asset and the impact of perceived threats on the value.






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






20. 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 -






21. Results in greater uniformity and better adherence to security policies. It is generally less expensive to administer due to the economies of scale. However - turnaround can be slower due to the lack of alignment with business units.






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






23. Has full responsibility over data.






24. Carries out the technical administration.






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






26. Adherence to local regulations must always be the priority. _______________________ is the most effective compromise in this situation.






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






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






29. Accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






32. When reporting an incident to senior management - the initial information to be communicated should include an explanation of _____________________ A summary of security logs would be too technical to report to senior management. An analysis of the i






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






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






35. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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






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






42. 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.






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






44. Potentially damaging computer program that affects - or infects a computer negatively by altering the way the computer works






45. Ensures that there are no scalability problems.






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






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






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






49. Provides strong online authentication.






50. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps