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Domain 1: GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT Flashcards

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Business driver

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Condition, process, requirement, or other concern that influences the way an org manages activities

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What does understanding why an organization exists and conducts business preceed?

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Developing Infosec Governence

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Proprietership

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Single owner/family owned

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Proprietorship decision-making process

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Single decision maker

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Partnership

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Multiple owners

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Who is responsible for management and risk in a partnership?

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All partners

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Corporation purpose

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Separate liability from the owners

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Articles of incorporation

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How a business will be run

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Primary force driving governance

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Shareholder value

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CMMI

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Capability Maturity Model Integration

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CMMI Levels

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  1. Initial
  2. Managed
  3. Defined
  4. Quantitatively Managed
  5. Optimizing
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CMMI Proactive levels

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3-5 (Defined, Quantitatively Managed, Optimizing)

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When do orgs realize the benefits of mapping processes to organizational standards and achieving consistency?

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CMMI Level 3

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Business drivers affect…

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Decisions made in an organization

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15
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Most important infoSec drivers? (2)

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Business compliance
Privacy needs

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16
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CISO must understand these drivers (4)

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Objectives
Business processes supporting objectives
Information and technology
Threats to operations

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First things CISO’s need to do

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Understand how org works. People, Revenue streams

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18
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ISMS

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Policy, guided by Governance and Compliance
Then everything under that.
Risk, Architecture, Asset Classification, SecOps
Business Resilince
Training
Metrics & Reporting

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19
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Benefit of a security policy

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Provides legal protection because of a stated commitment to requirements

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20
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Most common reason companies create security policies…

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Regulatory requirements

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Other reasons for policies

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Compliance
Frameworks (ISO)

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Most important content

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Understandable
Target Audience

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23
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Policy best-practices (5)

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Concise
Common Language
Consistent with law
Reasonable
Enforceable

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Who must support a policy?

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Senior Management

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25
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Traditional role of CISO is to develop processes to support 4 objectives

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Reduce IT Risk
Establish and implement security policies and procedures
Establish standards and controls
Respond to incidents

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Ethics

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Moral principles that govern behavior of a person or group.

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Seven-question framework for ethical decision-making

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Alternatives?
Stakeholders?
Harm?
Most good with least harm?
Are alternatives objectionable?
Am I comfortable with it?
Comfortable telling friends or family?

28
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Does EC-Council have Code of Ethics?

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Risk management

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Identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by effort to minimize, monitor, and control probability and impact

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Risk management principles (7)

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Understand risks
Measure risk
Communicate risk
Select treatment plans
Implement treatment plan
Manage residual risk
Communicate status of risk management program

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Who is responsible for the process or framework for communicating risk?

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CISO or CRO

32
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Risk management framework provides…

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Approach to a specific objective

33
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NIST RMF

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Life cycle to incorporate security throughout a system development project

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NIST RMF Lifecycle (8)

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Categorize systems
Select controls
Supplement controls
Document
Implement
Assess controls
Authorize systems
Monitor controls

35
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How do you know if you own a risk?

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Whether you have the authority to fix it or not.

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Who is responsible for the final decision to apply a risk treatment?

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Business/Asset owner

37
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Risk treatment options (4)

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Modification or mitigation
Avoidance
Transfer
Acceptance

38
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Risk modification

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Most common
Applying security controls

39
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Risk modification aka

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mitigation

40
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Risk avoidance

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Eliminate the risk

41
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Risk sharing aka

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Risk transfer

42
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Inherent risk

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Risk that comes with using a system

43
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Residual risk

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Risk following treatment

44
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ISO 27005

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Guidelines for information security risk management
Costs money

45
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ISO 27005 steps (4)

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Design controls
Deploy
Manage controls
Ongoing analysis of controls

46
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ISO 27005 Risk Assessment Workflow (3)

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Risk Identification
Risk Analysis
Risk Evaluation

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Risk identification

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Determine what can cause loss
Learn how, where, why loss might happen

48
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Risk identification evaluates…

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Assets
Threats
Controls
Vulnerabilities
Consequences

49
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Risk identification maps consequences to…

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Assets
Business processes

50
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Risk Analysis analyzes… (3)

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Consequences
Likelihood
Level of risk (rating)

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Risk Evaluation

52
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Risk treatment

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Prioritized set of risks
Develop recommendations

53
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Risk acceptance occurs….

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After risk treatment and validation of control effectiveness

54
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Risk feedback

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Monitoring, review, and communication

55
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Risk monitoring feedback loop (2)

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Monitor risks and initiate assessment when risks change.

Review risk management program for continuous improvement

56
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Risk communication includes…

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Outcome of assessments
Status reports
Assessment issues
General concerns

57
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NIST 800-37r1

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Risk Management Lifecycle

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800-30

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Guidance for risk assessments

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800-39

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Risk management guidance

60
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Risk framing

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Assumptions, constraints, tolerances, priorities that shape an organizations approach to managing risk.

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ISO 31000

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Enterprise Risk Management

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Threat Agent Risk Assessment (TARA)

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Process to identify and assess threats and select countermeasures

63
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OCTAVE Allegro

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Lean Risk Assessment
Doesn’t select controls

64
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FAIR

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Quantifies strength of controls

65
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COBIT

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ISACA framework for IT management

66
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ITIL

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Practices for IT service management

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