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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. Controls that manage facility access - locking systems - media sanitation - intrusion monitoring - environmental
SP 800-30
physical
john the ripper
risk anlysis
2. Tools to ID - develop - and design security requirements for business needs
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
BS7799
blueprints
3. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management
escalation
performance baseline
CobiT
ISO/IEC 27799
4. Made up of ten domains - a mechanism to describe security processes
single loss expectancy
privilege
risk analysis
ISO 17799
5. Provides a cost/benefit comparision
risk anlysis
ISO 17799
john the ripper
risk analysis
6. SLE x ARO - (ALE)
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
annualized loss expectancy
ISO/IEC 27005
ISO/IEC 27004
7. Legal term used to determine liability - acting responsibly - have lower risk of liability due to security breach
Information Security Management
privilege
due care
performance baseline
8. Risk mgmt method with much broader focus than IT security
ISO/IEC 27001
planning horizon
risk catagories
AS/NZS 4360
9. 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
security officer
vulnerability
FRAP
10. CSO
corporate security officer
CobiT
performance baseline
risk mitigation
11. Method of ID functions and their failures - causes of failures their effect - originally designed for systems engineering
risk catagories
performance monitor
FMEA
ISO 17799
12. The following tools (Nessus - Qualys - Retina) are ______________ scanners
vulnerability
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
COSO
IRM
13. Responsible for developing: security awareness program - budget for information security related activities; policies - procdures - and guidelines - a security compliance program - and metrics
COSO
corporate security officer
IRM
CISO
14. Potential danger to information or systems
L0phtCrack
privilege
ISO/IEC 27799
threat
15. Collection of controls an organization must have in place
ISO 17799
ISO/IEC 27002
elcomsoft
security program
16. FRAP
data owner
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
vulnerability scanner
CobiT
17. CISO
blueprints
chief information security officer
FMEA
annualized rate of occurrence
18. Internationally recognized Information Security Management standard - provides high level conceptual recomendations on enterprise security - brish standard
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
BS7799
L0phtCrack
security program
19. An open language from mitre.org for determining vulnerabilities and problems on computer systems
BS7799
single loss expectancy
firewall
OVAL
20. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems
integrity
elcomsoft
exposure factor
annualized rate of occurrence
21. OCTAVE
vulnerability
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
exposure
corporate security officer
22. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals
annualized rate of occurrence
availability
usage
CobiT
23. Controls that implement access control - password mangement - identification and authentication methods - configuration
performance baseline
risk catagories
integrity
technical
24. IRM
Information risk management
performance baseline
OVAL
countermeasure
25. Establish - implement - control and improve the Information Security Managment System (based on BS7799 Part 2)
security program
CISO
exposure
ISO/IEC 27001
26. A plan of action to deal with risks defined in the risk assessment - may remediate or transfer risk
risk mitigation
operational
L0phtCrack
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
27. A process to ID assests and their value - ID vulnerabilities and threats - quantify probability and impact of threats - provide balance between impact and cost
ISO/IEC 27002
single loss expectancy
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
risk anlysis
28. ____________ can discover network devices / application - check password strength - measure internal / external access - analyze vulnerabilities in NOS - test response to DOS attacks
FMEA
delayed
network mapping
L0phtCrack
29. IT governance at the operational level
AS/NZS 4360
network mapping
risk catagories
CobiT
30. Control environment - company culture - Risk assessment - manage change - Control activities - policies - procedures - practices - Information and communication - right people - info - time - Monitoring - detect and respond
integrity
COSO
risk analysis
ISO/IEC 27004
31. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________
security governanace
mappers
protocol analyzer
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
32. This type of testing scans for vulnerabilities - attacks to determine extent - tests countermeasures by circumvention - and can be internal or external
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations
penetration
operational
risk analysis
33. FMEA
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
ISO/IEC 27004
protocol analyzer
COSO
34. 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
L0phtCrack
usage
risk analysis
risk
35. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage
chief information security officer
ISO/IEC 27799
firewall
CobiT
36. CobiT
countermeasure
Control Objectives for Information and related Technology
protocol analyzer
confidentiality
37. Controls that include policies - standards - procedures -risk management - personnel screening - training - change control
administrative
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
security governanace
risk anlysis
38. Derived from the COSO framework
AS/NZS 4360
COSO
CobiT
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
39. An open source password cracker that uses dictionary and brute force attacks - stores previously cracked passwords - uses unshadow to merge password /shadow files
john the ripper
network mapping
Facilitated Risk Analysis Process
network mapping
40. This tool scans network devices listening for open ports - (i.e. Nmap - scanmetender - superscan - NHS nohack scanner)
risk mitigation
CobiT
performance baseline
port scanner
41. _______________ can test IDS - detect network congestion - detect bad / failing equipment - detect high processor loads - must be NOS appropriate
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
SP 800-30
network mapping
planning horizon
42. Guide assist in the implemenation of information security based on risk managent approach
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
escalation
ISO/IEC 27005
strategic
43. Port scanners - vulnerability scanners - protocol analyzers - password crackers - network mappers - open vulnerability and assessment language (OVAL) are all tool used in a ___________________ assessment
Failure Modes and Effect Analysis
vulnerability
protocol analyzer
network mapping
44. Provides good practice advice on ISMS (ISO 17799)(based on BS7799 Part 1)
ISO/IEC 27002
Operationally Critical Threat - Asset - and Vulnerability Evaluation
ISO/IEC 27005
COSO
45. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure
threat
confidentiality
CobiT
technical
46. __________ loss has a negative effect after a vulnerability is initially exploited
delayed
ISO/IEC 27799
risk
FRAP
47. Plan and Organize - Implement - Operate and Maintain - Monitor and Evaluate
technical
risk
security program
performance monitor
48. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)
ISO/IEC 27002
penetration
annualized rate of occurrence
FMEA
49. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat
annualized rate of occurrence
qualitative
chief information security officer
exposure
50. NIST risk management methodology
FRAP
confidentiality
operational
SP 800-30