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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. The tools - personnel and business processes necessary to ensure that security meets needs






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






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






4. Potential danger to information or systems






5. Possiblity of damage and the ramifications should it occur






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Provides a cost/benefit comparision






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






14. The likelihood of exploitation and the loss potential






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






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






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






18. Responsible for information classification and protection






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






20. Ensures necessary level of secrecy and prevents unauthorized disclosure






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






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






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






24. A log that can record outgoing requests - incoming traffic - and internet usage






25. ISM Standard






26. De facto standard of best practices for IT service mgmt






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)






28. OCTAVE






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






30. FMEA






31. Guide to illustrate how to protect personal health information






32. Strategic - tactical and operational planning






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






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






35. Number of time the incident might occur annually - (ARO)






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






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






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






39. Assurance of accurancy and reliability of information and systems






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






41. SLE x ARO - (ALE)






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






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






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






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






46. CISO






47. Percentage of an asset's value that would be lost in a single incident - (EF)






48. Derived from the COSO framework






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






50. NIST risk management methodology