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Domain 1 (Security and Risk Management) Flashcards

1
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What does CIA stand for?

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Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability

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What is the purpose of confidentiality?

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Enforces secrecy

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What is the purpose of integrity?

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Accuracy, reliability of data

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What are example controls that enforce confidentiality?

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Encryption, Access control

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What are example controls that enforce Integrity?

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Hashing, Change Control

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What are example controls that enforce availability?

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RAID, backups

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Definition of Vulnerability

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System weakness that allow treat agent to compromise

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Definition of Threat

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Danger associated with exploiting vulnerability

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Examples of a Treat Agent

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Intruder, careless employee or bad policy

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Definition of Risk

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Likelihood of threat source exploiting vulnerability and its business impact

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Definition of Exposure

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Instance of being exposed to loss. Example: Weak Password

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Definition of Control

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Countermeasure to mitigate risk

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13
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What are the three control types?

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Administrative, Technical and Physical

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Examples of Administrative controls

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Documents, training, management related

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Examples of Technical controls

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Firewall, encryption, IDS

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16
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Example of physical control

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Fences

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17
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Definition of Defense-In-Depth

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coordinated use of several controls in layered approach

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18
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Name the six control functions

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Preventative, Detective, Corrective, Deterrent, Recovery and Compensating

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What does a Preventative control function do?

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Intend to avoid incident happening

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20
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What does a detective control function do?

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Identify incident activities

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What does a corrective control function do?

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Fixes systems after incident

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22
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What does a deterrent control function do?

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Discourages attackers

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What does a recovery control function do?

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Brings environment back to operation

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24
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What does a compensating control function do?

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Alternative measure of control

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25
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Definition of Security Through Obscurity

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Assume your enemies are not as smart as you are

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26
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Definition of Methodology

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Process to follow to build architecture

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27
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Definition of Strategic Alignment

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Business drivers being met by security

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28
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Definition of Business enablement

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Core business processes are integrated into security model

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29
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What does a system architect do?

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Structure of software

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30
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What does a enterprise architect do?

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Structure of organization

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31
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What is computer assisted crime?

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Computer used to carry out crime

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32
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What is computer targeted crime?

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Computer was victim

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33
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What is computer incidental crime?

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A computer happen to have been used in crime

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34
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Definition of Advanced Persistent Threat

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Very focused and motivated attacker

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35
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Characteristics of Civil law system

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Decide liability not guilt. Financial compensation

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36
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Characteristics of criminal law

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Innocent until proven guilty. Punishment loss of freedom

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Characteristics of Customary Law Systems

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Based on tradition, Deals with personal conduct, Fine or community service

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38
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What is a mixed law system?

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Mostly mix civil and common law

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39
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Characteristics of Administrative law

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Regulatory standards for performance and conduct

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40
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Characteristics of Trade Secret

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Qualify only if provides company with competitive edge. Must require skill, money effort develop. Proprietary.

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41
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Examples of a Trade Secret

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Algorithms, source code, recipe

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42
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Characteristics of Copyright

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Does not cover resource but expression of idea

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43
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Examples of Copyright

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Drawing, music

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44
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Examples of Trademark

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Work, symbol, sound

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45
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Characteristics of Patent

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Excludes others from copying, lasts 20 years

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46
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What do you call non practicing entities that do not use patent?

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Patent troll

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47
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What is Freeware

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Can use and share

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48
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What is Shareware

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Released for marketing

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49
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What is Personally Identifiable Information?

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Data that can identify a single person

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50
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What is privacy?

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The ability to control who has information about you

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51
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What is a Chief Privacy Officer?

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Usually lawyer oversees how data managed

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52
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Name three privacy problems

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Data aggregation, loss of borders, convergent technologies

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53
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What is a generic approach regulation?

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Stretches across industries, also called horizontal enactment

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54
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Tip for Reasonable Exception of Privacy?

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Tell staff they are being monitored

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55
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Definition of Threat?

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Something that has the potential to cause harm

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56
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Quality of a safeguard?

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It’s proactive

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57
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Quality of a Countermeasure?

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It’s reactive

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58
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What is a Secondary Risk?

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A risk that comes later as the result of another risk response

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59
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What is Residual Risk?

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The risk left over after a risk response

60
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What does the Delphi Technique do?

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Get users to contribute to risk analysis anonymously

61
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Quantitative Analysis - what does AV stand for?

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Asset value, Dollar number asset is worth

62
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Quantitative Analysis - what does EF stand for?

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Exposure factor. % of loss expected as result

63
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Quantitative Analysis - what does SLE stand for?

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Single loss expectancy. Dollar amount cost single occurrence of threat

64
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Quantitative Analysis - what does ARO stand for?

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Annual Rate of Occurrence. How often a threat is expected to materialize

65
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Quantitative Analysis - what does ALE stand for?

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Annual loss expectancy. Cost per year as a result of the threat

66
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Quantitative Analysis - what does TCO stand for?

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Total cost of ownership. Cost of implementing the safeguard

67
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What is Asset Value (AV)?

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Dollar number asset is worth

68
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What is Exposure Factor (EF)?

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% of loss expected as result

69
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What is Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)?

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Dollar amount cost single occurrence of threat

70
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What is Annual Rate of Occurrence (ARO)?

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How often the threat is expected to materialize

71
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What is Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE)?

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Cost per year as a result of the threat

72
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What is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)?

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Total cost of implementing a safeguard

73
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Formula for Single Loss Expectancy (SLE)?

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SLE (Single Loss Expectancy) = AV (Asset Value) * EF (Exposure Factor)

74
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Formula for Annual Loss Expectancy (ALE)?

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ALE (Annual Loss Expectancy) = SLE (Single Loss Expectancy) * ARO (Annual Rate of Occurrence)

75
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What are the five ways to mitigate risk?

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Reduce, Accept, Transfer, Avoidance, Rejection

76
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What does Risk Reduction do?

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Lessen the probability and/or impact of a risk

77
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What is Risk Transference?

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Shares the risk with someone else. Insurance or SLA. Lessen portion of loss. Does not reduce likelihood.

78
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What is Risk Acceptance?

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Logical solution when cost of mitigation is greater than the potential for loss

79
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What is Risk Rejection?

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Happens when we ignore the risk

80
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What is Risk Avoidance?

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When we don’t go ahead with whatever would expose us to that risk

81
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What is Total Risk?

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The risk that exists before any control is implemented

82
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What is Governance?

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Ensures that stakeholder needs and goals understood

83
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What is Management?

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Plans, build, runs and monitors activities as directed by governance

84
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COBIT and COSO buzzword

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Goal orientated

85
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OCTAVE buzzword

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Self directed risk assessment

86
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What does ISO 27002 do?

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Practical advise for implementing security controls in ISMS (Information Security Management System)

87
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What does ISO 27001 do?

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Establish, Implement, Control and Improve ISMS (Information Security Management Systems).

88
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What does ISO 27004 do?

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Provides metrics for measuring the success of ISMS (Information Security Management Systems).

89
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What does ISO 27799 do?

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Directives on protecting personal health information

90
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What does ISO 27005 do?

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A standards based approach to risk management

91
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What standard replaced ISO 17799?

92
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Who is ultimately responsible for the security within an organization?

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Senior management

93
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What is Due Diligence?

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Continuously monitoring an organizations practices to ensure they are meeting the security requirements

94
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What is Due Care?

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Ensuring that best practices and implemented and followed.

95
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What is the Prudent Man Rule?

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Acting responsibly and cautiously as a prudent man would

96
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What are the three characteristics of the Organization Security Policy?

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Very high level management statement,
Assign responsibility,
Explains drivers.

97
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What is a System Specific Policy?

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Every system has a different policy (printers, AD etc)

98
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What is a Issue Specific Policy?

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Company stance on various employee issues. Privacy, e-mail usage etc

99
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What are Standards within Policies?

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Mandatory, gives specifics about how to support policy

100
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What are Procedures?

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Mandatory, Step by step instructions

101
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What are Guidelines?

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Not mandatory, suggestive in nature. Recommended actions and guides to users

102
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What are Baselines?

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Mandatory, minimum acceptable security configuration for a system or process

103
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What is Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)?

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Handels disaster and ramification right after disaster hits

104
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What is Business Continuity Planning (BCP)?

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Deals with long term effects of outage

105
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What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)?

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Holistic management process that cover both

106
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Who is the leader of the BCP (Business Continuity Management) team?

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Business continuity coordinator

107
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What is Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)?

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Classifications for how long each system can be down (Critical, Normal, nonessential etc)

108
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What is performed before Business Continuity Planning (BCP)?

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A business impact analysis (BIA)

109
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What is Separation of Duties?

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Ensure no individual cannot complete a critical task by himself

110
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What is Collusion?

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At least two people working together to cause fraud

111
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What is Split Knowledge?

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No one person knows how to completely perform a task (IE launch codes)

112
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What is Dual Control?

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Two people must perform action such as key turn

113
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What is Rotation of Duties?

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No one person hold position for too long

114
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What is the WASSENAAR agreement?

A

Cannot export crypto to terrorist countries

115
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What is cyber squatting?

A

Registering a URL that somebody else would need

116
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What is HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?

A

Applies to healthcare

117
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What is a Crisis Communication Plan?

A

How to report to staff and public

118
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What is a Occupant Emergency Plan (OEP)?

A

Keep people safe

119
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How often should a Disaster Recovery Plan be tested?

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At least once a year

120
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What is a Failover?

A

Action taken to recover

121
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What is a Failback?

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Go back to normal after failover

122
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What is a Parallel test in DRP?

A

System moved and used offsite, risky

123
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What is a Full Interruption Test?

A

Shutdown original site, risky

124
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What is Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

A

How current must my data be if restoring from a backup?

125
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What is Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)?

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What is the longest that a system can be down?

126
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What is Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)?

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Lifespan of hardware

127
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What is Minimum Operating Requirements (MOR)?

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What is the minimum system spec

128
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What is the opposite of CIA?

A

Disclosure, Alteration and Destruction

129
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What does IAAA stand for?

A

Identity and Authentication, Authorization and Accountability

130
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What in an example of Identity and Authentication?

A

Username and password

131
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What is an example of Authorization as it relates to IAAA?

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Actions done on a system after Authentication such as read and write access

132
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What is nonrepudiation?

A

A user cannot deny having performed a transaction

133
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What is the difference between subjects and objects?

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Subject is a user, object is a file

134
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What are the three types of Financial Damages in legal terms?

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Statutory, Compensatory and Punitive

135
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What are Statutory Financial Damages?

A

Prescribed by law awarded to victim even if they have suffered no loss

136
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What are Compensatory Financial Damages?

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Provide victim with financial award to compensate for loss

137
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What are Punitive Financial Damages?

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Punish individual or organization

138
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What is Attestation?

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Having a third-party audit a service provider to ensure they can be trusted

139
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What is a Divestiture?

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The opposite of an acquisition in which two companies become one

140
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Is a Policy mandatory or discretionary?

141
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Is a Procedure mandatory or discretionary?

142
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Is a Standard mandatory or discretionary?

143
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Is a Guideline mandatory or discretionary?

A

Discretionary

144
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Is a Baseline mandatory or discretionary?

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Discretionary

145
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What is offshoring?

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Outsourcing to another country

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