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Q1. - (Topic 3)
Within the company, there is executive management pressure to start advertising to a new target market. Due to the perceived schedule and budget inefficiencies of engaging a technology business unit to commission a new micro-site, the marketing department is engaging third parties to develop the site in order to meet time-to-market demands. From a security perspective, which of the following options BEST balances the needs between marketing and risk management?
A. The third party should be contractually obliged to perform adequate security activities, and evidence of those activities should be confirmed by the company prior to launch.
B. Outsourcing is a valid option to increase time-to-market. If a security incident occurs, it is not of great concern as the reputational damage will be the third party’s responsibility.
C. The company should never outsource any part of the business that could cause a security or privacy incident. It could lead to legal and compliance issues.
D. If the third party has an acceptable record to date on security compliance and is provably faster and cheaper, then it makes sense to outsource in this specific situation.
Answer: A
Q2. - (Topic 1)
A security manager has received the following email from the Chief Financial Officer (CFO):
“While I am concerned about the security of the proprietary financial data in our ERP application, we have had a lot of turnover in the accounting group and I am having a difficult time meeting our monthly performance targets. As things currently stand, we do not allow employees to work from home but this is something I am willing to allow so we can get back on track. What should we do first to securely enable this capability for my group?”
Based on the information provided, which of the following would be the MOST appropriate response to the CFO?
A. Remote access to the ERP tool introduces additional security vulnerabilities and should not be allowed.
B. Allow VNC access to corporate desktops from personal computers for the users working from home.
C. Allow terminal services access from personal computers after the CFO provides a list of the users working from home.
D. Work with the executive management team to revise policies before allowing any remote access.
Answer: D
Q3. - (Topic 4)
Company XYZ has employed a consultant to perform a controls assessment of the HR system, backend business operations, and the SCADA system used in the factory. Which of the following correctly states the risk management options that the consultant should use during the assessment?
A. Risk reduction, risk sharing, risk retention, and risk acceptance.
B. Avoid, transfer, mitigate, and accept.
C. Risk likelihood, asset value, and threat level.
D. Calculate risk by determining technical likelihood and potential business impact.
Answer: B
Q4. - (Topic 4)
The Universal Research Association has just been acquired by the Association of Medical Business Researchers. The new conglomerate has funds to upgrade or replace hardware as part of the acquisition, but cannot fund labor for major software projects. Which of the following will MOST likely result in some IT resources not being integrated?
A. One of the companies may use an outdated VDI.
B. Corporate websites may be optimized for different web browsers.
C. Industry security standards and regulations may be in conflict.
D. Data loss prevention standards in one company may be less stringent.
Answer: C
Q5. - (Topic 4)
A new internal network segmentation solution will be implemented into the enterprise that consists of 200 internal firewalls. As part of running a pilot exercise, it was determined that it takes three changes to deploy a new application onto the network before it is operational. Security now has a significant affect on overall availability. Which of the following would be the FIRST process to perform as a result of these findings?
A. Lower the SLA to a more tolerable level and perform a risk assessment to see if the solution could be met by another solution. Reuse the firewall infrastructure on other projects.
B. Perform a cost benefit analysis and implement the solution as it stands as long as the risks are understood by the business owners around the availability issues. Decrease the current SLA expectations to match the new solution.
C. Engage internal auditors to perform a review of the project to determine why and how the project did not meet the security requirements. As part of the review ask them to review the control effectiveness.
D. Review to determine if control effectiveness is in line with the complexity of the solution. Determine if the requirements can be met with a simpler solution.
Answer: D
Q6. - (Topic 5)
A security analyst is tasked to create an executive briefing, which explains the activity and motivation of a cyber adversary. Which of the following is the MOST important content for the brief for management personnel to understand?
A. Threat actor types, threat actor motivation, and attack tools
B. Unsophisticated agents, organized groups, and nation states
C. Threat actor types, attack sophistication, and the anatomy of an attack
D. Threat actor types, threat actor motivation, and the attack impact
Answer: D
Q7. - (Topic 4)
A security auditor is conducting an audit of a corporation where 95% of the users travel or work from non-corporate locations a majority of the time. While the employees are away from the corporate offices, they retain full access to the corporate network and use of corporate laptops. The auditor knows that the corporation processes PII and other sensitive data with applications requiring local caches of any data being manipulated. Which of the following security controls should the auditor check for and recommend to be implemented if missing from the laptops?
A. Trusted operating systems
B. Full disk encryption
C. Host-based firewalls
D. Command shell restrictions
Answer: B
Q8. - (Topic 2)
A security administrator has noticed that an increased number of employees’ workstations are becoming infected with malware. The company deploys an enterprise antivirus system as well as a web content filter, which blocks access to malicious web sites where malware files can be downloaded. Additionally, the company implements technical measures to disable external storage. Which of the following is a technical control that the security administrator should implement next to reduce malware infection?
A. Implement an Acceptable Use Policy which addresses malware downloads.
B. Deploy a network access control system with a persistent agent.
C. Enforce mandatory security awareness training for all employees and contractors.
D. Block cloud-based storage software on the company network.
Answer: D
Q9. - (Topic 4)
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is reviewing the IT centric BIA and RA documentation.
The documentation shows that a single 24 hours downtime in a critical business function will cost the business $2.3 million. Additionally, the business unit which depends on the critical business function has determined that there is a high probability that a threat will materialize based on historical data. The CIO’s budget does not allow for full system hardware replacement in case of a catastrophic failure, nor does it allow for the purchase of additional compensating controls. Which of the following should the CIO recommend to the finance director to minimize financial loss?
A. The company should mitigate the risk.
B. The company should transfer the risk.
C. The company should avoid the risk.
D. The company should accept the risk.
Answer: B
Q10. - (Topic 2)
A facilities manager has observed varying electric use on the company’s metered service lines. The facility management rarely interacts with the IT department unless new equipment is being delivered. However, the facility manager thinks that there is a correlation between spikes in electric use and IT department activity. Which of the following business processes and/or practices would provide better management of organizational resources with the IT department’s needs? (Select TWO).
A. Deploying a radio frequency identification tagging asset management system
B. Designing a business resource monitoring system
C. Hiring a property custodian
D. Purchasing software asset management software
E. Facility management participation on a change control board
F. Rewriting the change board charter
G. Implementation of change management best practices
Answer: E,G
Q11. - (Topic 1)
A software development manager is taking over an existing software development project. The team currently suffers from poor communication due to a long delay between requirements documentation and feature delivery. This gap is resulting in an above average number of security-related bugs making it into production. Which of the following development methodologies is the team MOST likely using now?
A. Agile
B. Waterfall
C. Scrum
D. Spiral
Answer: B
Q12. - (Topic 4)
Ann, a Physical Security Manager, is ready to replace all 50 analog surveillance cameras with IP cameras with built-in web management. Ann has several security guard desks on different networks that must be able to view the cameras without unauthorized people viewing the video as well. The selected IP camera vendor does not have the ability to authenticate users at the camera level. Which of the following should Ann suggest to BEST secure this environment?
A. Create an IP camera network and deploy NIPS to prevent unauthorized access.
B. Create an IP camera network and only allow SSL access to the cameras.
C. Create an IP camera network and deploy a proxy to authenticate users prior to accessing the cameras.
D. Create an IP camera network and restrict access to cameras from a single management host.
Answer: C
Q13. - (Topic 5)
A company wishes to purchase a new security appliance. A security administrator has extensively researched the appliances, and after presenting security choices to the company’s management team, they approve of the proposed solution. Which of the following documents should be constructed to acquire the security appliance?
A. SLA
B. RFQ
C. RFP
D. RFI
Answer: B
Q14. - (Topic 1)
The security administrator finds unauthorized tables and records, which were not present before, on a Linux database server. The database server communicates only with one web server, which connects to the database server via an account with SELECT only privileges. Web server logs show the following:
90.76.165.40 – - [08/Mar/2014:10:54:04] “GET calendar.php?create%20table%20hidden HTTP/1.1” 200 5724
90.76.165.40 – - [08/Mar/2014:10:54:05] “GET ../../../root/.bash_history HTTP/1.1” 200 5724
90.76.165.40 – - [08/Mar/2014:10:54:04] “GET index.php?user=<script>Create</script> HTTP/1.1” 200 5724
The security administrator also inspects the following file system locations on the database server using the command ‘ls -al /root’
drwxrwxrwx 11 root root 4096 Sep 28 22:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Mar 8 09:30 ..
-rws------ 25 root root 4096 Mar 8 09:30 .bash_history
-rw------- 25 root root 4096 Mar 8 09:30 .bash_history
-rw------- 25 root root 4096 Mar 8 09:30 .profile
-rw------- 25 root root 4096 Mar 8 09:30 .ssh
Which of the following attacks was used to compromise the database server and what can the security administrator implement to detect such attacks in the future? (Select TWO).
A. Privilege escalation
B. Brute force attack
C. SQL injection
D. Cross-site scripting
E. Using input validation, ensure the following characters are sanitized: <>
F. Update crontab with: find / \( -perm -4000 \) –type f –print0 | xargs -0 ls –l | email.sh
G. Implement the following PHP directive: $clean_user_input = addslashes($user_input)
H. Set an account lockout policy
Answer: A,F
Q15. - (Topic 5)
After a security incident, an administrator would like to implement policies that would help reduce fraud and the potential for collusion between employees. Which of the following would help meet these goals by having co-workers occasionally audit another worker's position?
A. Least privilege
B. Job rotation
C. Mandatory vacation
D. Separation of duties
Answer: B