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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
network mapping
FMEA
escalation
performance baseline
2. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27004
annualized loss expectancy
usage
3. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
security program
network mapping
vulnerability
COSO
4. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk
COSO
performance monitor
risk mitigation
CobiT
5. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
blueprints
ISO 17799
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
CISO
6. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate
CobiT
performance monitor
physical
Information Security Management
7. FMEA
FMEA
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
physical
threat
8. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
performance monitor
FMEA
security officer
security governanace
9. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
single loss expectancy
ISO/IEC 27002
security program
risk
10. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers
strategic
OVAL
vulnerability scanner
CISO
11. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
penetration
OVAL
administrative
network mapping
12. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
port scanner
data owner
risk analysis
vulnerability scanner
13. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
vulnerability scanner
ISO 17799
blueprints
IRM
14. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
ISO 17799
COSO
technical
risk analysis
15. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
AS/NZS 4360
confidentiality
delayed
risk analysis
16. Mitigates a potential risk
countermeasure
qualitative
AS/NZS 4360
SP 800-30
17. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
corporate security officer
annualized rate of occurrence
firewall
operational
18. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
due care
confidentiality
risk anlysis
technical
19. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
Information Security Management
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
ISO/IEC 27799
CISO
20. An password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - rainbow tables - can test password strength and recover passwords - was originally free - but now a commercial product
firewall
physical
corporate security officer
L0phtCrack
21. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
risk mitigation
ITIL
OCTAVE
annualized rate of occurrence
22. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components
performance monitor
technical
single loss expectancy
risk analysis
23. Strategic - tactical and operational planning
tactical
firewall
planning horizon
IRM
24. 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)
Information risk management
protocol analyzer
integrity
mappers
25. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
COSO
usage
risk catagories
CISO
26. Potential danger to information or systems
penetration
elcomsoft
threat
security program
27. 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
ISO 17799
network mapping
confidentiality
risk catagories
28. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
countermeasure
port scanner
AS/NZS 4360
Information Security Management
29. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
risk anlysis
OCTAVE
usage
vulnerability
30. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
annualized rate of occurrence
SP 800-30
ISO/IEC 27005
FRAP
31. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
vulnerability
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
penetration
COSO
32. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
administrative
operational
network mapping
security officer
33. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
security program
elcomsoft
john the ripper
integrity
34. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
penetration
availability
administrative
single loss expectancy
35. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
countermeasure
technical
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
ISO/IEC 27002
36. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
ISO 17799
FMEA
usage
CISO
37. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
security program
john the ripper
Information risk management
38. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server
ISO 17799
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
ITIL
planning horizon
39. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
technical
OCTAVE
COSO
threat
40. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
annualized loss expectancy
risk analysis
BS7799
chief information security officer
41. Derived from the COSO framework
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
CobiT
due care
42. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
OVAL
ISO/IEC 27001
risk anlysis
ISO/IEC 27004
43. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat
ITIL
L0phtCrack
exposure
confidentiality
44. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
technical
ISO/IEC 27001
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
risk catagories
45. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
privilege
integrity
FMEA
risk analysis
46. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
administrative
blueprints
security program
FMEA
47. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
COSO
Information Security Management
performance monitor
elcomsoft
48. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
CISO
qualitative
chief information security officer
risk analysis
49. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
FRAP
security program
ISO/IEC 27005
firewall
50. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats
administrative
elcomsoft
fault tree analysis
delayed