The Information Security Officer (ISO) is reviewing new policies that have been recently made effective and
now apply to the company. Upon review, the ISO identifies a new requirement to implement two-factor
authentication on the company’s wireless system. Due to budget constraints, the company will be unable to
implement the requirement for the next two years. The ISO is required to submit a policy exception form to the
Chief Information Officer (CIO). Which of the following are MOST important to include when submitting the
exception form? (Select THREE).

A security analyst has been asked to develop a quantitative risk analysis and risk assessment for the
company’s online shopping application. Based on heuristic information from the Security Operations Center
(SOC), a Denial of Service Attack (DoS) has been successfully executed 5 times a year. The Business
Operations department has determined the loss associated to each attack is $40,000. After implementing
application caching, the number of DoS attacks was reduced to one time a year. The cost of the
countermeasures was $100,000. Which of the following is the monetary value earned during the first year of
operation?

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a large prestigious enterprise has decided to reduce business costs by
outsourcing to a third party company in another country. Functions to be outsourced include: business analysts,
testing, software development and back office functions that deal with the processing of customer data. The
Chief Risk Officer (CRO) is concerned about the outsourcing plans. Which of the following risks are MOST
likely to occur if adequate controls are not implemented?

A new piece of ransomware got installed on a company’s backup server which encrypted the hard drives
containing the OS and backup application configuration but did not affect the deduplication data hard drives.
During the incident response, the company finds that all backup tapes for this server are also corrupt. Which of
the following is the PRIMARY concern?

An insurance company is looking to purchase a smaller company in another country. Which of the following
tasks would the security administrator perform as part of the security due diligence?

Which of the following describes a risk and mitigation associated with cloud data storage?

The risk manager has requested a security solution that is centrally managed, can easily be updated, and
protects end users’ workstations from both known and unknown malicious attacks when connected to either the
office or home network. Which of the following would BEST meet this requirement?

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 developer has implemented a piece of client-side JavaScript code to sanitize a user’s provided input to a web
page login screen. The code ensures that only the upper case and lower case letters are entered in the
username field, and that only a 6-digit PIN is entered in the password field. A security administrator is
concerned with the following web server log:
10.235.62.11 – – [02/Mar/2014:06:13:04] “GET /site/script.php?user=admin&pass=pass%20or%201=1
HTTP/1.1” 200 5724
Given this log, which of the following is the security administrator concerned with and which fix should be
implemented by the developer?

A security administrator wants to prevent sensitive data residing on corporate laptops and desktops from
leaking outside of the corporate network. The company has already implemented full-disk encryption and has
disabled all peripheral devices on its desktops and laptops. Which of the following additional controls MUST be
implemented to minimize the risk of data leakage? (Select TWO).