IS456 - Midterm 2

Kim is the risk manager for a large organization. She is evaluating whether the organization should purchase a fire suppression system. She consulted a variety of subject matter experts and determined that there is a 1 percent chance that a fire will occur in a given year. If a fire occurred, it would likely cause $2 million in damage to the facility, which has a $10 million value. Given this scenario, what is the single loss expectancy (SLE)?

$2,000,000

Kim is the risk manager for a large organization. She is evaluating whether the organization should purchase a fire suppression system. She consulted a variety of subject matter experts and determined that there is a 1 percent chance that a fire will occur in a given year. If a fire occurred, it would likely cause $2 million in damage to the facility, which has a $10 million value. Given this scenario, what is the annualized loss expectancy (ALE)?

$20,000

Nancy performs a full backup of her server every Sunday at 1 A.M. and differential backups on Mondays through Fridays at 1 A.M. Her server fails at 9 A.M. Wednesday. How many backups does Nancy need to restore?

2

Kim is the risk manager for a large organization. She is evaluating whether the organization should purchase a fire suppression system. She consulted a variety of subject matter experts and determined that there is a 1 percent chance that a fire will occur in a given year. If a fire occurred, it would likely cause $2 million in damage to the facility, which has a $10 million value. Given this scenario, what is the exposure factor?

20 percent

Janet is identifying the set of privileges that should be assigned to a new employee in her organization. Which phase of the access control process is she performing?

Authorization

Curtis is conducting an audit of an identity management system. Which question is NOT likely to be in the scope of his audit?

Does the firewall properly block unsolicited network connection attempts?

What is a set of concepts and policies for managing IT infrastructure, development, and operations?

IT Infrastructure (ITIL)

Jacob is conducting an audit of the security controls at an organization as an independent reviewer. Which question would NOT be part of his audit?

Is the security control likely to become obsolete in the near future?

When should an organization's managers have an opportunity to respond to the findings in an audit?

Managers should include their responses to the draft audit report in the final audit report.

Which regulatory standard would NOT require audits of companies in the United States

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

Which data source comes first in the order of volatility when conducting a forensic investigation

RAM

What is the correct order of steps in the change control process?

Request, impact assessment, approval, build/test, implement, monitor

Emily is the information security director for a large company that handles sensitive personal information. She is hiring an auditor to conduct an assessment demonstrating that her firm is satisfying requirements regarding customer private data. What type of assessment should she request?

SOC 3

In what type of attack does the attacker send unauthorized commands directly to a databse

SQL injection

Isaac is responsible for performing log reviews for his organization in an attempt to identify security issues. He has a massive amount of data to review. What type of tool would best assist him with this work?

Security information and event management (SIEM)

Joe is responsible for the security of the industrial control systems for a power plant. What type of environment does Joe administer?

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Mark is considering outsourcing security functions to a third-party service provider. What benefit is he most likely to achieve?

access to a high level expertise

What is NOT a principle for privacy created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)?

an organization should share its information

Ricky is reviewing security logs to independently assess security controls. Which security review process is Ricky engaging in?

audit

In an accreditation process, who has the authority to approve a system for implementation?

authorizing official (AO)

Ann is creating a template for the configuration of Windows servers in her organization. It includes the basic security settings that should apply to all systems. What type of document should she create?

baseline

Fran is conducting a security test of a new application. She does not have any access to the source code or other details of the application she is testing. What type of test is Fran conducting?

black-box test

Which audit data collection method helps ensure that the information-gathering process covers all relevant areas?

checklist

Which activity manages the baseline settings for a system or device?

configuration control

Forensics and incident response are examples of ___________ controls.

corrective

What information should an auditor share with the client during an exit interview

details on major issues

What is a key principle of risk management programs

don't spend more to protect an asset than it is worth

Which practice is NOT considered unethical under RFC 1087 issued by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)

enforcing the integrity of computer-based information

Anthony is responsible for tuning his organization's intrusion detection system. He notices that the system reports an intrusion alert each time that an administrator connects to a server using Secure Shell (SSH). What type of error is occurring?

false positive error

Bob is preparing to dispose of magnetic media and wishes to destroy the data stored on it. Which method is NOT a good approach for destroying data?

formatting

Which recovery sire option provides readiness in minutes to hours

hot site

Adam's company recently suffered an attack where hackers exploited an SQL injection issue on their web server and stole sensitive information from a database. What term describes this activity?

incident

Which of the following would NOT be considered in the scope organizational compliance efforts

laws

Brian needs to design a control that prevents piggybacking, only allowing one person to enter a facility at a time. What type of control would best meet this need?

mantraps

What term describes the longest period of time that a business can survive without a particular critical system?

maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)

Which agreement type is typically less formal than other agreements and expresses areas of common interest

memorandum of understanding (MOU)

Which security testing activity activity uses tools that scan for services running on systems

network mapping

Roger's organization received a mass email message that attempted to trick users into revealing their passwords by pretending to be a help desk representative. What category of social engineering is this an example of?

phishing

Violet deploys an intrusion prevention system (IPS) on her network as a security control. What type of control has Violet deployed?

preventive

Marguerite is creating a budget for a software development project. What phase of the system lifecycle is she undertaking?

project initiation and planning

Christopher is designing a security policy for his organization. He would like to use an approach that allows a reasonable list of activities but does not allow other activities. Which permission level is he planning to use?

prudent

What is NOT a goal of information security awareness programs?

punish users who violate policy

Beth is conducting a risk assessment. She is trying to determine the impact a security incident will have on the reputation of her company. What type of risk assessment is best suited to this type of analysis?

qualitative

Alan is the security manager for a mid-sized business. The company has suffered several serious data losses when mobile devices were stolen. Alan decides to implement full disk encryption on all mobile devices. What risk response did Alan take?

reduce

Which activity is an auditor least likely to conduct during the information-gathering phase of an audit

report writing

What term describes the risk that exists after an organization has performed all planned countermeasures and controls

residual risk

Which item is an auditor least likely to review during s system controls audit

resumes of system administrators

Gina is preparing to monitor network activity using packet sniffing. Which technology is most likely to interfere with this effort if used on the network?

secure sockets layer (SSL)

Karen is designing a process for issuing checks and decides that one group of users will have the authority to create new payees in the system while a separate group of users will have the authority to issue checks to those payees. The intent of this control is to prevent fraud. Which principle is Karen enforcing?

separation of duties

Biyu is making arrangements to use a third-party service provider for security services. She wants to document a requirement for timely notification of security breaches. What type of agreement is most likely to contain formal requirements of this type?

service level agreement (SLA)

Which intrusion detection system strategy relied upon pattern matching

signature detection

What is NOT generally a section in an audit report

systems configurations

What type of security monitoring tool would be most likely to identify an unauthorized change to a computer system?

systems integrity monitoring

Aditya is attempting to classify information regarding a new project that his organization will undertake in secret. Which characteristic is NOT normally used to make these type of classification decisions?

threat

Purchasing an insurance policy is an example of the ____________ risk management strategy.

transfer

Adam is evaluating the security of a web server before it goes live. He believes that an issue in the code allows an SQL injection attack against the server. What term describes the issue that Adam discovered?

vulnerability

Which control is NOT an example of a fault tolerance technique designed to avoid interruptions that would cause downtime?

warm site

In what software development model does activity progress in a lock-step sequential process where no phase begins until the previous phase is complete?

waterfall