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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. Type of audit that checks information classification and change control procedures






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






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






4. COSO






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






6. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






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






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






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






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






11. Information security managment measurements






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






13. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure






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






15. Mitigates a potential risk






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. IRM






23. NIST risk management methodology






24. Type of audit that checks procedures and policies for escalating issues to management






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






26. CobiT






27. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






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






29. Used to predict changes based on trends - detect deviations - and watch events across multiple system components






30. ISM Standard






31. Type of audit that checks that accounts - groups and roles are correctly assigned






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






33. Corporate governance at the strategic level






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






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






36. Hp OpenView - Nmap - Qualys - Solana Networks - SolarWinds are all network _____________






37. CISO






38. An instance of being exposed to losses from a threat






39. OCTAVE






40. Long-term goals focused on risk managment - compliance - security responsiblities - continual improvement - using security to attract customers






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






42. Ensures managment security directives are fulfilled






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






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






45. Derived from the COSO framework






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






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






48. 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






49. Ensures reliable timely access to data/resources to authorized individuals






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