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CISM: Certified Information Security Manager

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Scam in which a perpetrator sends an official looking email message that attempts to obtain your personal and financial information






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






3. A risk assessment should be conducted _________________.






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






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






6. The MAIN reason why _______________ is important to a successful information security program is because classification determines the appropriate level of protection to the asset.






7. 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.






8. The risk that has been assumed by a third party and may not necessarily be equal to the minimal form of residual risk.






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






10. To identify known vulnerabilities based on common misconfigurations and missing updates.






11. 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






12. Someone who accesses a computer or network illegally






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






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






15. A notice that guarantees a user or a web site is legitimate






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. An effective tool but primarily focuses on malicious code from external sources - and only for those applications that are online.






23. From a security standpoint - _______________________ is one of the most important topics that should be included in the contract with third-party service provider.

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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. Occurs when the electrical supply drops






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






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






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






34. New security ulnerabilities should be managed through a ________________.






35. There is a time lag between the time when a security vulnerability is first published - and the time when a patch is delivered. - The best protection is to _____________________ until a patch is installed.






36. Used to understand the flow of one process into another.






37. Cannot be minimized






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






44. Occurs when the incoming level






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






46. Attackers who exploit flawed ___________________________________ can sniff network traffic and crack keys to gain unauthorized access to information.






47. btaining senior management support for establishing a warm site can BEST be accomplished by ____________________ - including a cost-benefit analysis - will be most persuasive to management. A risk assessment may be included in the business case - but






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






49. 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






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