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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. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)






2. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






3. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






4. Used to ID failures in a complex systems to understand underlying causes of threats






5. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)






6. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach






7. FRAP






8. IT governance at the operational level






9. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard






10. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential






11. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations






12. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error






13. IRM






14. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost






15. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






16. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration






17. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)






18. Collection of controls an organization must have in place






19. Expected or predetermined performance level - developed from policy - performance - requirements






20. Plan and Organize - Acquire and Implement - Deliver and Support - Monitor and Evaluate






21. FMEA






22. CobiT






23. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate






24. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis






25. Event levels available for logging in a MS DNS server






26. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks






27. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond






28. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities






29. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)






30. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards






31. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited






32. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately






33. 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






34. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.






35. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate






36. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers






37. NIST risk management methodology






38. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






39. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)






40. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering






41. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






42. SLE x ARO - (ALE)






43. Derived from the COSO framework






44. 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)






45. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs






46. Potential danger to information or systems






47. CSO






48. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs






49. CISO






50. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt