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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. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
risk
security governanace
risk mitigation
COSO
2. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
risk analysis
exposure
FRAP
confidentiality
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
risk
COSO
port scanner
vulnerability
4. Potential danger to information or systems
OVAL
protocol analyzer
threat
COSO
5. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur
network mapping
risk
escalation
ISO 17799
6. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
ISO 17799
SP 800-30
OCTAVE
availability
7. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
confidentiality
availability
SP 800-30
ITIL
8. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
performance baseline
blueprints
ISO 17799
CobiT
9. 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
operational
ISO/IEC 27799
risk catagories
10. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________
delayed
ISO/IEC 27005
COSO
mappers
11. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
administrative
CobiT
network mapping
ISO/IEC 27001
12. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
OVAL
FMEA
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
risk analysis
13. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
due care
administrative
vulnerability scanner
L0phtCrack
14. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
risk
risk anlysis
risk mitigation
FRAP
15. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
due care
L0phtCrack
risk anlysis
tactical
16. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
tactical
corporate security officer
due care
qualitative
17. The asset's value multiplied by the EF percentage - (SLE)
CISO
single loss expectancy
confidentiality
ITIL
18. Responsible for information classification and protection
delayed
FMEA
chief information security officer
data owner
19. 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
OVAL
Information Security Management
CobiT
L0phtCrack
20. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
privilege
data owner
confidentiality
FMEA
21. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting
FMEA
BS7799
COSO
SP 800-30
22. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
OCTAVE
ISO/IEC 27004
usage
vulnerability
23. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
planning horizon
network mapping
risk anlysis
CobiT
24. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
port scanner
CobiT
firewall
ISO/IEC 27004
25. ISM Standard
AS/NZS 4360
annualized loss expectancy
Information Security Management
ISO 17799
26. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
penetration
strategic
firewall
27. 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)
annualized rate of occurrence
data owner
protocol analyzer
ISO 17799
28. OCTAVE
firewall
OCTAVE
FMEA
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
29. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
physical
FMEA
security officer
30. FMEA
Information risk management
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
availability
COSO
31. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
confidentiality
ISO/IEC 27799
exposure
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
32. Strategic - tactical and operational planning
planning horizon
protocol analyzer
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
exposure factor
33. Focus on service level agreements between IT dept and internal customers
COSO
IRM
fault tree analysis
ITIL
34. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
single loss expectancy
performance monitor
exposure factor
delayed
35. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
annualized rate of occurrence
FMEA
fault tree analysis
IRM
36. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
ISO/IEC 27799
network mapping
L0phtCrack
CISO
37. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
ISO/IEC 27004
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
technical
john the ripper
38. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
ISO/IEC 27005
security governanace
firewall
administrative
39. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
escalation
mappers
ISO/IEC 27001
integrity
40. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
integrity
CobiT
escalation
network mapping
41. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
delayed
privilege
annualized loss expectancy
vulnerability
42. A commercial password cracker that can test password strength and recover passwords; and perform dictionary and brute force attacks
technical
availability
elcomsoft
corporate security officer
43. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
COSO
corporate security officer
BS7799
OVAL
44. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures
COSO
administrative
corporate security officer
risk analysis
45. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
mappers
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
annualized loss expectancy
blueprints
46. CISO
risk anlysis
OCTAVE
john the ripper
chief information security officer
47. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
elcomsoft
blueprints
exposure factor
availability
48. Derived from the COSO framework
annualized rate of occurrence
availability
CobiT
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
49. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
ISO/IEC 27004
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
CobiT
CISO
50. NIST risk management methodology
ITIL
OCTAVE
SP 800-30
L0phtCrack