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Comptia Security +: Assessment And Risk Mgmt

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






2. Information security managment measurements






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






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






5. Mitigates a potential risk






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






7. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control






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






9. Developed by the Treadway Commission in 1985 to deal with fraudulent financial activities and reporting






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






11. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk






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






13. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security






14. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion






15. NIST risk management methodology






16. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs






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






18. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment






19. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics






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






21. Midterm goals






22. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems






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






24. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes






25. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners






26. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company






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






28. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external






29. IRM






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






31. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






32. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental






33. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files






34. A weakness (software - hardware - procedural - human) that can be exploited






35. 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






36. Potential danger to information or systems






37. FMEA






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






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






40. 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






41. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach






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






43. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)






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






45. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)






46. Corporate governance at the strategic level






47. Responsible for information classification and protection






48. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






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






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