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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 data owner is responsible for _______________________.






2. 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.






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






4. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






5. 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.






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






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






8. Reducing risk to a level too small to measure is _______________.






9. 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.






10. A trusted third party that attests to the identity of the signatory - and reliance will be a function of the level of trust afforded the CA.






11. 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






12. Oversees the overall classification management of the information.






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






14. Ensure that transmitted information can be attributed to the named sender.






15. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






17. Inject malformed input.






18. Helps to define the minimum acceptable security that will be implemented to protect the information resources in accordance with the respective criticality levels.






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






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






21. Computer that has duplicate components so it can continue to operate when one of its main components fail






22. 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.






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






24. Cannot be minimized






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. A Successful risk management should lead to a ________________.






36. Warranted in circumstances where compliance may be difficult or impossible and the risk of noncompliance is outweighed by the benefits.






37. 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.






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






39. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






40. Normally addressed through antivirus and antispyware policies.






41. The first step in a risk analysis process to determine the impact to the organization - which is the ultimate goal.






42. Occurs when the incoming level






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






44. It is easier to manage and control a _________________.






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






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






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






48. 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 _____________.






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






50. The most fundamental evaluation criteria for the appropriate selection of any security technology is ________________________.