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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. 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
performance baseline
corporate security officer
risk mitigation
2. A method of ID vulnerabililties and threats and assessing possible impacts to determine where to implement security safeguards
CobiT
risk analysis
Information risk management
OVAL
3. Physical damage - human interaction - equip malfunction - misuse of data - loss of data - application error
risk catagories
annualized rate of occurrence
performance baseline
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
4. OCTAVE
L0phtCrack
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
security program
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
5. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
data owner
CISO
due care
OVAL
6. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
strategic
due care
privilege
ISO 17799
7. ISM Standard
fault tree analysis
Information Security Management
physical
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
8. Mitigates a potential risk
countermeasure
network mapping
Information risk management
administrative
9. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
annualized loss expectancy
technical
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27005
10. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled
availability
security officer
port scanner
corporate security officer
11. Information security managment measurements
ISO/IEC 27004
ITIL
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
due care
12. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
FRAP
ITIL
ISO/IEC 27001
OVAL
13. CSO
IRM
vulnerability
corporate security officer
AS/NZS 4360
14. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
ISO/IEC 27005
BS7799
qualitative
security program
15. Derived from the COSO framework
risk
security program
OCTAVE
CobiT
16. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information
technical
operational
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
ISO/IEC 27799
17. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
security program
OVAL
integrity
penetration
18. Process of ID and assessing risk - reducing to acceptable level - implementing mechanisms to maintain.
performance baseline
vulnerability
blueprints
IRM
19. Daily goals focused on productivity and task-oriented activities
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
OCTAVE
risk catagories
operational
20. A quantative risk assesment process that allows for tests to be conducted to allow users to determine areas that require a risk analysis
CISO
FRAP
vulnerability
single loss expectancy
21. Used in assurance risk mgmt - methodical way to ID major failure modes (not useful for complex failure modes)
FMEA
fault tree analysis
tactical
security program
22. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks
network mapping
AS/NZS 4360
FMEA
IRM
23. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
AS/NZS 4360
risk anlysis
delayed
security officer
24. NIST risk management methodology
CobiT
SP 800-30
exposure
network mapping
25. Risk mgmt method created by Carnegie Mellon University - people manage/direct the risk evaluation for IT security in a company
OCTAVE
Information risk management
ISO/IEC 27005
availability
26. Risk assessment that is scenario based - ranks threats and countermeasures - uses experience - judgment - intuition and opinion
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
exposure
qualitative
SP 800-30
27. COSO
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
Information risk management
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
delayed
28. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
COSO
protocol analyzer
risk anlysis
chief information security officer
29. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned
privilege
mappers
security program
BS7799
30. Potential danger to information or systems
firewall
exposure factor
confidentiality
threat
31. A tool that maps weaknesses of systems / networks by scanning for ports - checking for applications - determining OS and patch level - and attempting exploits
ISO/IEC 27001
fault tree analysis
vulnerability scanner
BS7799
32. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
ISO 17799
risk
exposure
port scanner
33. FRAP
CobiT
administrative
penetration
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
34. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
integrity
physical
blueprints
Information Security Management
35. Type of audit that checks that network resources - systems and software are used appropriately
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
usage
john the ripper
ISO/IEC 27005
36. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers
ISO/IEC 27001
IRM
strategic
ISO 17799
37. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs
CobiT
security governanace
protocol analyzer
risk mitigation
38. FMEA
risk catagories
due care
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
exposure factor
39. IRM
Information risk management
blueprints
CISO
threat
40. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
No events - Errors only - Errors and warnings - All events
vulnerability
integrity
BS7799
41. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components
usage
due care
performance monitor
confidentiality
42. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
SP 800-30
port scanner
availability
physical
43. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
qualitative
firewall
CISO
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
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)
protocol analyzer
Information Security Management
vulnerability
CISO
45. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
SP 800-30
FRAP
network mapping
administrative
46. Responsible for communicating to senior mgmt organizational risks and compliance regulations
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
CISO
port scanner
mappers
47. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)
vulnerability scanner
risk anlysis
exposure factor
data owner
48. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
performance monitor
elcomsoft
IRM
ISO/IEC 27002
49. Framework/set of best practices that define goals for controls used to properly manage IT and to ensure IT maps to business needs
CobiT
network mapping
performance monitor
vulnerability
50. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential
vulnerability scanner
risk
OVAL
risk anlysis