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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
ISO/IEC 27799
risk analysis
confidentiality
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
2. Corporate governance at the strategic level
ISO/IEC 27001
COSO
vulnerability
corporate security officer
3. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
ISO 17799
IRM
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
risk analysis
4. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
network mapping
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
CISO
OVAL
5. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
strategic
risk analysis
CISO
CobiT
6. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
IRM
CISO
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
vulnerability
7. FRAP
exposure factor
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
technical
single loss expectancy
8. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
privilege
vulnerability
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
COSO
9. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
ISO/IEC 27002
due care
exposure
exposure factor
10. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
chief information security officer
availability
vulnerability
11. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
risk
SP 800-30
ISO 17799
vulnerability
12. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
blueprints
escalation
countermeasure
technical
13. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
ISO/IEC 27004
single loss expectancy
penetration
14. Derived from the COSO framework
ISO/IEC 27799
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27002
penetration
15. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
vulnerability
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
blueprints
delayed
16. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
tactical
network mapping
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
corporate security officer
17. Potential danger to information or systems
threat
physical
network mapping
vulnerability scanner
18. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
due care
blueprints
ISO 17799
fault tree analysis
19. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
AS/NZS 4360
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
ISO/IEC 27002
CISO
20. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
FMEA
vulnerability
administrative
risk analysis
21. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
vulnerability
fault tree analysis
operational
COSO
22. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
COSO
AS/NZS 4360
port scanner
usage
23. CobiT
vulnerability
administrative
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
security program
24. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
ISO/IEC 27799
john the ripper
operational
ISO/IEC 27002
25. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
single loss expectancy
countermeasure
escalation
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
26. Midterm goals
Information Security Management
risk catagories
threat
tactical
27. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
due care
security governanace
exposure
security officer
28. FMEA
administrative
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
vulnerability scanner
performance monitor
29. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt
privilege
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
blueprints
CobiT
30. Security policy - map business objectives to security - Security infrastructure - security officer - reviews - Assest classification/control - inventory - Personnel security - screening - training - roles - Physical security - Communication/operation
countermeasure
Information risk management
due care
ISO 17799
31. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately
annualized loss expectancy
usage
ITIL
strategic
32. Information security managment measurements
qualitative
exposure
ISO/IEC 27004
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
33. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures
administrative
vulnerability scanner
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
mappers
34. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat
vulnerability
exposure
administrative
annualized rate of occurrence
35. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
technical
annualized loss expectancy
operational
vulnerability scanner
36. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
usage
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
CobiT
physical
37. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
annualized rate of occurrence
risk analysis
vulnerability
CobiT
38. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
ISO/IEC 27799
OCTAVE
annualized loss expectancy
vulnerability
39. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
COSO
qualitative
risk anlysis
vulnerability
40. A tool that monitors network traffic - shows data and protocols in use - also known as a packet sniffer (i.e wireshark - TCPDump - Microsoft Network Monitor - Carnivore)
protocol analyzer
ISO/IEC 27004
risk anlysis
ISO 17799
41. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
john the ripper
BS7799
network mapping
42. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
FRAP
mappers
L0phtCrack
strategic
43. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
ISO 17799
security program
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
COSO
44. ISM Standard
IRM
privilege
Information Security Management
corporate security officer
45. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
ISO/IEC 27799
penetration
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
chief information security officer
46. COSO
vulnerability
fault tree analysis
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
ISO/IEC 27001
47. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate
planning horizon
Information Security Management
CobiT
countermeasure
48. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
fault tree analysis
administrative
data owner
countermeasure
49. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
firewall
vulnerability
due care
physical
50. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
integrity
privilege
protocol analyzer
annualized loss expectancy