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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

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






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






3. 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 -






4. An information security manager has to impress upon the human resources department the need for _____________________.






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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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






10. __________________________ is of utmost importance. Understanding business objectives is critical in determining the security needs of the organization.






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






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






13. The data owner is responsible for _______________________.






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






15. Program that copies itself repeatedly - using up resources and possibly shutting down the computer or network






16. _______________ of the organization have the responsibility of ensuring information systems security this can include indirect personnel such as physical security personnel.






17. 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.






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






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






20. A key indicator of performance measurement.






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






22. The most important characteristic of good security policies is that they be ____________________.






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






24. 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.






25. Applications cannot access data associated with other apps






26. Identification and _______________ of business risk enables project managers to address areas with most significance.






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. ecurity design flaws require a ____________________.






32. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






33. Any event or action that could cause a loss of or damage to computer hardware - software - data - information - or processing capability






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






35. Should be a standard requirement for the service provider.






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. The best measure and will involve reviewing the entire source code to detect all instances of back doors.






42. Focuses on identifying vulnerabilities.






43. 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.






44. Should be determined from the risk assessment results.






45. Without _____________________ - there cannot be accountability.






46. 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.






47. When defining the information classification policy - the ___________________ need to be identified.






48. 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






49. Has full responsibility over data.






50. Someone who uses the internet or network to destroy or damage computers for political reasons







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