What would be an example of an organization transferring the risks associated with a data breach?
- A . Using a third-party service to process credit card transactions.
- B . Encrypting sensitive personal data during collection and storage
- C . Purchasing insurance to cover the organization in case of a breach.
- D . Applying industry standard data handling practices to the organization’ practices.
Which of the following is considered a client-side IT risk?
- A . Security policies focus solely on internal corporate obligations.
- B . An organization increases the number of applications on its server.
- C . An employee stores his personal information on his company laptop.
- D . IDs used to avoid the use of personal data map to personal data in another database.
SCENARIO
Carol was a U.S.-based glassmaker who sold her work at art festivals. She kept things simple by only accepting cash and personal checks.
As business grew, Carol couldn’t keep up with demand, and traveling to festivals became burdensome. Carol opened a small boutique and hired Sam to run it while she worked in the studio. Sam was a natural salesperson, and business doubled. Carol told Sam, `I don’t know what you are doing, but keep doing it!"
But months later, the gift shop was in chaos. Carol realized that Sam needed help so she hired Jane, who had business expertise and could handle the back- ofce tasks. Sam would continue to focus on sales. Carol gave Jane a few weeks to get acquainted with the artisan craft business, and then scheduled a meeting for the three of them to discuss Jane’s frst impressions.
At the meeting, Carol could not wait to hear Jane’s thoughts, but she was unprepared for what Jane had to say. `Carol, I know that he doesn’t realize it, but some of Sam’s efforts to increase sales have put you in a vulnerable position. You are not protecting customers’ personal information like you should.`
Sam said, `I am protecting our information. I keep it in the safe with our bank deposit. It’s only a list of customers’ names, addresses and phone numbers that I get from their checks before I deposit them. I contact them when you fnish a piece that I think they would like. That’s the only information I have! The only other thing I do is post photos and information about your work on the photo sharing site that I use with family and friends. I provide my email address and people send me their information if they want to see more of your work. Posting online really helps sales, Carol. In fact, the only complaint I hear is about having to come into the shop to make a purchase. `
Carol replied, `Jane, that doesn’t sound so bad. Could you just fx things and help us to post even more online?"
`˜I can," said Jane. `But it’s not quite that simple. I need to set up a new program to make sure that we follow the best practices in data management. And I am concerned for our customers. They should be able to manage how we use their personal information. We also should develop a social media strategy.`
Sam and Jane worked hard during the following year. One of the decisions they made was to contract with an outside vendor to manage online sales. At the end of the year, Carol shared some exciting news. `Sam and Jane, you have done such a great job that one of the biggest names in the glass business wants to buy us out! And Jane, they want to talk to you about merging all of our customer and vendor information with theirs beforehand."
What type of principles would be the best guide for Jane’s ideas regarding a new data management program?
- A . Collection limitation principles.
- B . Vendor management principles.
- C . Incident preparedness principles.
- D . Fair Information Practice Principles
SCENARIO
Carol was a U.S.-based glassmaker who sold her work at art festivals. She kept things simple by only accepting cash and personal checks.
As business grew, Carol couldn’t keep up with demand, and traveling to festivals became burdensome. Carol opened a small boutique and hired Sam to run it while she worked in the studio. Sam was a natural salesperson, and business doubled. Carol told Sam, `I don’t know what you are doing, but keep doing it!"
But months later, the gift shop was in chaos. Carol realized that Sam needed help so she hired Jane, who had business expertise and could handle the back- ofce tasks. Sam would continue to focus on sales. Carol gave Jane a few weeks to get acquainted with the artisan craft business, and then scheduled a meeting for the three of them to discuss Jane’s frst impressions.
At the meeting, Carol could not wait to hear Jane’s thoughts, but she was unprepared for what Jane had to say. `Carol, I know that he doesn’t realize it, but some of Sam’s efforts to increase sales have put you in a vulnerable position. You are not protecting customers’ personal information like you should.`
Sam said, `I am protecting our information. I keep it in the safe with our bank deposit. It’s only a list of customers’ names, addresses and phone numbers that I get from their checks before I deposit them. I contact them when you fnish a piece that I think they would like. That’s the only information I have! The only other thing I do is post photos and information about your work on the photo sharing site that I use with family and friends. I provide my email address and people send me their information if they want to see more of your work. Posting online really helps sales, Carol. In fact, the only complaint I hear is about having to come into the shop to make a purchase.`
Carol replied, `Jane, that doesn’t sound so bad. Could you just fx things and help us to post even more online?"
`˜I can," said Jane. `But it’s not quite that simple. I need to set up a new program to make sure that we follow the best practices in data management. And I am concerned for our customers. They should be able to manage how we use their personal information. We also should develop a social media strategy.`
Sam and Jane worked hard during the following year. One of the decisions they made was to contract with an outside vendor to manage online sales. At the end of the year, Carol shared some exciting news. `Sam and Jane, you have done such a great job that one of the biggest names in the glass business wants to buy us out! And Jane, they want to talk to you about merging all of our customer and vendor information with theirs beforehand."
Which regulator has jurisdiction over the shop’s data management practices?
- A . The Federal Trade Commission.
- B . The Department of Commerce.
- C . The Data Protection Authority.
- D . The Federal Communications Commission.
SCENARIO
Carol was a U.S.-based glassmaker who sold her work at art festivals. She kept things simple by only accepting cash and personal checks.
As business grew, Carol couldn’t keep up with demand, and traveling to festivals became burdensome. Carol opened a small boutique and hired Sam to run it while she worked in the studio. Sam was a natural salesperson, and business doubled. Carol told Sam, `I don’t know what you are doing, but keep doing it!"
But months later, the gift shop was in chaos. Carol realized that Sam needed help so she hired Jane, who had business expertise and could handle the back- ofce tasks. Sam would continue to focus on sales. Carol gave Jane a few weeks to get acquainted with the artisan craft business, and then scheduled a meeting for the three of them to discuss Jane’s frst impressions.
At the meeting, Carol could not wait to hear Jane’s thoughts, but she was unprepared for what Jane had to say. `Carol, I know that he doesn’t realize it, but some of Sam’s efforts to increase sales have put you in a vulnerable position. You are not protecting customers’ personal information like you should.`
Sam said, `I am protecting our information. I keep it in the safe with our bank deposit. It’s only a list of customers’ names, addresses and phone numbers that I get from their checks before I deposit them. I contact them when you fnish a piece that I think they would like. That’s the only information I have! The only other thing I do is post photos and information about your work on the photo sharing site that I use with family and friends. I provide my email address and people send me their information if they want to see more of your work. Posting online really helps sales, Carol. In fact, the only complaint I hear is about having to come into the shop to make a purchase.`
Carol replied, `Jane, that doesn’t sound so bad. Could you just fx things and help us to post even more online?"
`˜I can," said Jane. `But it’s not quite that simple. I need to set up a new program to make sure that we follow the best practices in data management. And I am concerned for our customers. They should be able to manage how we use their personal information. We also should develop a social media strategy.`
Sam and Jane worked hard during the following year. One of the decisions they made was to contract with an outside vendor to manage online sales. At the end of the year, Carol shared some exciting news. `Sam and Jane, you have done such a great job that one of the biggest names in the glass business wants to buy us out! And Jane, they want to talk to you about merging all of our customer and vendor information with theirs beforehand."
When initially collecting personal information from customers, what should Jane be guided by?
- A . Onward transfer rules.
- B . Digital rights management.
- C . Data minimization principles.
- D . Vendor management principles
A key principle of an effective privacy policy is that it should be?
- A . Written in enough detail to cover the majority of likely scenarios.
- B . Made general enough to maximize fexibility in its application.
- C . Presented with external parties as the intended audience.
- D . Designed primarily by the organization’s lawyers.
What was the frst privacy framework to be developed?
- A . OECD Privacy Principles.
- B . Generally Accepted Privacy Principles.
- C . Code of Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs).
- D . The Asia-Pacifc Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework.
Which of the following became a foundation for privacy principles and practices of countries and organizations across the globe?
- A . The Personal Data Ordinance.
- B . The EU Data Protection Directive.
- C . The Code of Fair Information Practices.
- D . The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Privacy Principles.
SCENARIO
Kyle is a new security compliance manager who will be responsible for coordinating and executing controls to ensure compliance with the company’s information security policy and industry standards. Kyle is also new to the company, where collaboration is a core value. On his frst day of new-hire orientation, Kyle’s schedule included participating in meetings and observing work in the IT and compliance departments.
Kyle spent the morning in the IT department, where the CIO welcomed him and explained that her department was responsible for IT governance. The CIO and Kyle engaged in a conversation about the importance of identifying meaningful IT governance metrics. Following their conversation, the CIO introduced Kyle to Ted and Barney. Ted is implementing a plan to encrypt data at the transportation level of the organization’s wireless network. Kyle would need to get up to speed on the project and suggest ways to monitor effectiveness once the implementation was complete. Barney explained that his short-term goals are to establish rules governing where data can be placed and to minimize the use of ofine data storage.
Kyle spent the afternoon with Jill, a compliance specialist, and learned that she was exploring an initiative for a compliance program to follow self-regulatory privacy principles. Thanks to a recent internship, Kyle had some experience in this area and knew where Jill could fnd some support. Jill also shared results of the company’s privacy risk assessment, noting that the secondary use of personal information was considered a high risk.
By the end of the day, Kyle was very excited about his new job and his new company. In fact, he learned about an open position for someone with strong qualifcations and experience with access privileges, project standards board approval processes, and application-level obligations, and couldn’t wait to recommend his friend Ben who would be perfect for the job. Ted’s implementation is most likely a response to what incident?
- A . Encryption keys were previously unavailable to the organization’s cloud storage host.
- B . Signatureless advanced malware was detected at multiple points on the organization’s networks.
- C . Cyber criminals accessed proprietary data by running automated authentication attacks on the organization’s network.
- D . Confdential information discussed during a strategic teleconference was intercepted by the organization’s top competitor.
SCENARIO
Kyle is a new security compliance manager who will be responsible for coordinating and executing controls to ensure compliance with the company’s information security policy and industry standards. Kyle is also new to the company, where collaboration is a core value. On his frst day of new-hire orientation, Kyle’s schedule included participating in meetings and observing work in the IT and compliance departments.
Kyle spent the morning in the IT department, where the CIO welcomed him and explained that her department was responsible for IT governance. The CIO and Kyle engaged in a conversation about the importance of identifying meaningful IT governance metrics. Following their conversation, the CIO introduced Kyle to Ted and Barney. Ted is implementing a plan to encrypt data at the transportation level of the organization’s wireless network. Kyle would need to get up to speed on the project and suggest ways to monitor effectiveness once the implementation was complete. Barney explained that his short-term goals are to establish rules governing where data can be placed and to minimize the use of ofine data storage.
Kyle spent the afternoon with Jill, a compliance specialist, and learned that she was exploring an initiative for a compliance program to follow self-regulatory privacy principles. Thanks to a recent internship, Kyle had some experience in this area and knew where Jill could fnd some support. Jill also shared results of the company’s privacy risk assessment, noting that the secondary use of personal information was considered a high risk.
By the end of the day, Kyle was very excited about his new job and his new company. In fact, he learned about an open position for someone with strong qualifcations and experience with access privileges, project standards board approval processes, and application-level obligations, and couldn’t wait to recommend his friend Ben who would be perfect for the job.
Which of the following should Kyle recommend to Jill as the best source of support for her initiative?
- A . Investors.
- B . Regulators.
- C . Industry groups.
- D . Corporate researchers.
SCENARIO
Kyle is a new security compliance manager who will be responsible for coordinating and executing controls to ensure compliance with the company’s information security policy and industry standards. Kyle is also new to the company, where collaboration is a core value. On his frst day of new-hire orientation, Kyle’s schedule included participating in meetings and observing work in the IT and compliance departments.
Kyle spent the morning in the IT department, where the CIO welcomed him and explained that her department was responsible for IT governance. The CIO and
Kyle engaged in a conversation about the importance of identifying meaningful IT governance metrics. Following their conversation, the CIO introduced Kyle to Ted and Barney. Ted is implementing a plan to encrypt data at the transportation level of the organization’s wireless network. Kyle would need to get up to speed on the project and suggest ways to monitor effectiveness once the implementation was complete. Barney explained that his short-term goals are to establish rules governing where data can be placed and to minimize the use of ofine data storage.
Kyle spent the afternoon with Jill, a compliance specialist, and learned that she was exploring an initiative for a compliance program to follow self-regulatory privacy principles. Thanks to a recent internship, Kyle had some experience in this area and knew where Jill could fnd some support. Jill also shared results of the company’s privacy risk assessment, noting that the secondary use of personal information was considered a high risk.
By the end of the day, Kyle was very excited about his new job and his new company. In fact, he learned about an open position for someone with strong qualifcations and experience with access privileges, project standards board approval processes, and application-level obligations, and couldn’t wait to recommend his friend Ben who would be perfect for the job.
Which data practice is Barney most likely focused on improving?
- A . Deletion
- B . Inventory.
- C . Retention.
- D . Sharing
What is the main function of a breach response center?
- A . Detecting internal security attacks.
- B . Addressing privacy incidents.
- C . Providing training to internal constituencies.
- D . Interfacing with privacy regulators and governmental bodies.
Which is NOT a suitable action to apply to data when the retention period ends?
- A . Aggregation.
- B . De-identifcation.
- C . Deletion.
- D . Retagging.
What is the distinguishing feature of asymmetric encryption?
- A . It has a stronger key for encryption than for decryption.
- B . It employs layered encryption using dissimilar methods.
- C . It uses distinct keys for encryption and decryption.
- D . It is designed to cross operating systems.
What is the most important requirement to fulfll when transferring data out of an organization?
- A . Ensuring the organization sending the data controls how the data is tagged by the receiver.
- B . Ensuring the organization receiving the data performs a privacy impact assessment.
- C . Ensuring the commitments made to the data owner are followed.
- D . Extending the data retention schedule as needed.
Which activity would best support the principle of data quality?
- A . Providing notice to the data subject regarding any change in the purpose for collecting such data.
- B . Ensuring that the number of teams processing personal information is limited.
- C . Delivering information in a format that the data subject understands.
- D . Ensuring that information remains accurate.
Which Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) privacy protection principle encourages an organization to obtain an individual s consent before transferring personal information?
- A . Individual participation.
- B . Purpose specifcation.
- C . Collection limitation.
- D . Accountability.
Granting data subjects the right to have data corrected, amended, or deleted describes?
- A . Use limitation.
- B . Accountability.
- C . A security safeguard
- D . Individual participation
What is a mistake organizations make when establishing privacy settings during the development of applications?
- A . Providing a user with too many choices.
- B . Failing to use "Do Not Trackג technology.
- C . Providing a user with too much third-party information.
- D . Failing to get explicit consent from a user on the use of cookies.
Which of the following suggests the greatest degree of transparency?
- A . A privacy disclosure statement clearly articulates general purposes for collection
- B . The data subject has multiple opportunities to opt-out after collection has occurred.
- C . A privacy notice accommodates broadly defned future collections for new products.
- D . After reading the privacy notice, a data subject confdently infers how her information will be used.
Which is NOT a suitable method for assuring the quality of data collected by a third-party company?
- A . Verifying the accuracy of the data by contacting users.
- B . Validating the company’s data collection procedures.
- C . Introducing erroneous data to see if its detected.
- D . Tracking changes to data through auditing.
A valid argument against data minimization is that it?
- A . Can limit business opportunities.
- B . Decreases the speed of data transfers.
- C . Can have an adverse effect on data quality.
- D . Increases the chance that someone can be identifed from data.
What is the main reason a company relies on implied consent instead of explicit consent from a user to process her data?
- A . The implied consent model provides the user with more detailed data collection information.
- B . To secure explicit consent, a user’s website browsing would be signifcantly disrupted.
- C . An explicit consent model is more expensive to implement.
- D . Regulators prefer the implied consent model.
What is the main beneft of using dummy data during software testing?
- A . The data comes in a format convenient for testing.
- B . Statistical disclosure controls are applied to the data.
- C . The data enables the suppression of particular values in a set.
- D . Developers do not need special privacy training to test the software.
How does k-anonymity help to protect privacy in micro data sets?
- A . By ensuring that every record in a set is part of a group of "k" records having similar identifying information.
- B . By switching values between records in order to preserve most statistics while still maintaining privacy.
- C . By adding sufcient noise to the data in order to hide the impact of any one individual.
- D . By top-coding all age data above a value of "k."
Which of the following statements describes an acceptable disclosure practice?
- A . An organization’s privacy policy discloses how data will be used among groups within the organization itself.
- B . With regard to limitation of use, internal disclosure policies override contractual agreements with third parties.
- C . Intermediaries processing sensitive data on behalf of an organization require stricter disclosure oversight than vendors.
- D . When an organization discloses data to a vendor, the terms of the vendor’ privacy notice prevail over the organization’ privacy notice.
How should the sharing of information within an organization be documented?
- A . With a binding contract.
- B . With a data fow diagram.
- C . With a disclosure statement.
- D . With a memorandum of agreement.
What can be used to determine the type of data in storage without exposing its contents?
- A . Collection records.
- B . Data mapping.
- C . Server logs.
- D . Metadata.
What must be done to destroy data stored on "write once read many" (WORM) media?
- A . The data must be made inaccessible by encryption.
- B . The erase function must be used to remove all data.
- C . The media must be physically destroyed.
- D . The media must be reformatted.
Which of the following would best improve an organization’ s system of limiting data use?
- A . Implementing digital rights management technology.
- B . Confrming implied consent for any secondary use of data.
- C . Applying audit trails to resources to monitor company personnel.
- D . Instituting a system of user authentication for company personnel.
Which of the following is considered a records management best practice?
- A . Archiving expired data records and fles.
- B . Storing decryption keys with their associated backup systems.
- C . Implementing consistent handling practices across all record types.
- D . Using classifcation to determine access rules and retention policy.
Which of the following provides a mechanism that allows an end-user to use a single sign-on (SSO) for multiple services?
- A . The Open ID Federation.
- B . PCI Data Security Standards Council
- C . International Organization for Standardization.
- D . Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.
A user who owns a resource wants to give other individuals access to the resource.
What control would apply?
- A . Mandatory access control.
- B . Role-based access controls.
- C . Discretionary access control.
- D . Context of authority controls.
What is the potential advantage of homomorphic encryption?
- A . Encrypted information can be analyzed without decrypting it frst.
- B . Ciphertext size decreases as the security level increases.
- C . It allows greater security and faster processing times.
- D . It makes data impenetrable to attacks.
What has been found to undermine the public key infrastructure system?
- A . Man-in-the-middle attacks.
- B . Inability to track abandoned keys.
- C . Disreputable certifcate authorities.
- D . Browsers missing a copy of the certifcate authority’s public key.
SCENARIO
Wesley Energy has fnally made its move, acquiring the venerable oil and gas exploration frm Lancelot from its long-time owner David Wilson. As a member of the transition team, you have come to realize that Wilson’s quirky nature affected even Lancelot’s data practices, which are maddeningly inconsistent. `The old man hired and fred IT people like he was changing his necktie,` one of Wilson’s seasoned lieutenants tells you, as you identify the traces of initiatives left half complete.
For instance, while some proprietary data and personal information on clients and employees is encrypted, other sensitive information, including health information from surveillance testing of employees for toxic exposures, remains unencrypted, particularly when included within longer records with less-sensitive data. You also fnd that data is scattered across applications, servers and facilities in a manner that at frst glance seems almost random.
Among your preliminary fndings of the condition of data at Lancelot are the following:
✑ Cloud technology is supplied by vendors around the world, including frms that you have not heard of. You are told by a former Lancelot employee that these vendors operate with divergent security requirements and protocols.
✑ The company’s proprietary recovery process for shale oil is stored on servers among a variety of less-sensitive information that can be accessed not only by scientists, but by personnel of all types at most company locations.
✑ DES is the strongest encryption algorithm currently used for any fle.
✑ Several company facilities lack physical security controls, beyond visitor check-in, which familiar vendors often bypass.
✑ Fixing all of this will take work, but frst you need to grasp the scope of the mess and formulate a plan of action to address it.
Which is true regarding the type of encryption Lancelot uses?
- A . It employs the data scrambling technique known as obfuscation.
- B . Its decryption key is derived from its encryption key.
- C . It uses a single key for encryption and decryption.
- D . It is a data masking methodology.
SCENARIO
Wesley Energy has fnally made its move, acquiring the venerable oil and gas exploration frm Lancelot from its long-time owner David Wilson. As a member of the transition team, you have come to realize that Wilson’s quirky nature affected even Lancelot’s data practices, which are maddeningly inconsistent. `The old man hired and fred IT people like he was changing his necktie,` one of Wilson’s seasoned lieutenants tells you, as you identify the traces of initiatives left half complete.
For instance, while some proprietary data and personal information on clients and employees is encrypted, other sensitive information, including health information from surveillance testing of employees for toxic exposures, remains unencrypted, particularly when included within longer records with less-sensitive data. You also fnd that data is scattered across applications, servers and facilities in a manner that at frst glance seems almost random.
Among your preliminary fndings of the condition of data at Lancelot are the following:
✑ Cloud technology is supplied by vendors around the world, including frms that you have not heard of. You are told by a former Lancelot employee that these vendors operate with divergent security requirements and protocols.
✑ The company’s proprietary recovery process for shale oil is stored on servers among a variety of less-sensitive information that can be accessed not only by scientists, but by personnel of all types at most company locations.
✑ DES is the strongest encryption algorithm currently used for any fle.
✑ Several company facilities lack physical security controls, beyond visitor check-in, which familiar vendors often bypass.
✑ Fixing all of this will take work, but frst you need to grasp the scope of the mess and formulate a plan of action to address it.
Which procedure should be employed to identify the types and locations of data held by Wesley Energy?
- A . Privacy audit.
- B . Log collection
- C . Data inventory.
- D . Data classifcation.
A credit card with the last few numbers visible is an example of what?
- A . Masking data
- B . Synthetic data
- C . Sighting controls.
- D . Partial encryption
What is an example of a just-in-time notice?
- A . A warning that a website may be unsafe.
- B . A full organizational privacy notice publicly available on a website
- C . A credit card company calling a user to verify a purchase before it is authorized
- D . Privacy information given to a user when he attempts to comment on an online article.
A vendor has been collecting data under an old contract, not aligned with the practices of the organization.
Which is the preferred response?
- A . Destroy the data
- B . Update the contract to bring the vendor into alignment.
- C . Continue the terms of the existing contract until it expires.
- D . Terminate the contract and begin a vendor selection process.
SCENARIO
It should be the most secure location housing data in all of Europe, if not the world. The Global Finance Data Collective (GFDC) stores fnancial information and other types of client data from large banks, insurance companies, multinational corporations and governmental agencies. After a long climb on a mountain road that leads only to the facility, you arrive at the security booth. Your credentials are checked and checked again by the guard to visually verify that you are the person pictured on your passport and national identifcation card. You are led down a long corridor with server rooms on each side, secured by combination locks built into the doors. You climb a fight of stairs and are led into an ofce that is lighted brilliantly by skylights where the GFDC Director of Security, Dr. Monique
Batch, greets you. On the far wall you notice a bank of video screens showing different rooms in the facility. At the far end, several screens show different sections of the road up the mountain
Dr. Batch explains once again your mission. As a data security auditor and consultant, it is a dream assignment: The GFDC does not want simply adequate controls, but the best and most effective security that current technologies allow.
`We were hacked twice last year,` Dr. Batch says, `and although only a small number of records were stolen, the bad press impacted our business. Our clients count on us to provide security that is nothing short of impenetrable and to do so quietly. We hope to never make the news again.` She notes that it is also essential that the facility is in compliance with all relevant security regulations and standards.
You have been asked to verify compliance as well as to evaluate all current security controls and security measures, including data encryption methods, authentication controls and the safest methods for transferring data into and out of the facility. As you prepare to begin your analysis, you fnd yourself considering an intriguing question: Can these people be sure that I am who I say I am?
You are shown to the ofce made available to you and are provided with system login information, including the name of the wireless network and a wireless key.
Still pondering, you attempt to pull up the facility’s wireless network, but no networks appear in the wireless list. When you search for the wireless network by name, however it is readily found.
Why would you recommend that GFC use record encryption rather than disk, fle or table encryption?
- A . Record encryption is asymmetric, a stronger control measure.
- B . Record encryption is granular, limiting the damage of potential breaches.
- C . Record encryption involves tag masking, so its metadata cannot be decrypted
- D . Record encryption allows for encryption of personal data only.
SCENARIO
It should be the most secure location housing data in all of Europe, if not the world. The Global Finance Data Collective (GFDC) stores fnancial information and other types of client data from large banks, insurance companies, multinational corporations and governmental agencies. After a long climb on a mountain road that leads only to the facility, you arrive at the security booth. Your credentials are checked and checked again by the guard to visually verify that you are the person pictured on your passport and national identifcation card. You are led down a long corridor with server rooms on each side, secured by combination locks built into the doors. You climb a fight of stairs and are led into an ofce that is lighted brilliantly by skylights where the GFDC Director of Security, Dr. Monique
Batch, greets you. On the far wall you notice a bank of video screens showing different rooms in the facility. At the far end, several screens show different sections of the road up the mountain
Dr. Batch explains once again your mission. As a data security auditor and consultant, it is a dream assignment: The GFDC does not want simply adequate controls, but the best and most effective security that current technologies allow.
`We were hacked twice last year,` Dr. Batch says, `and although only a small number of records were stolen, the bad press impacted our business. Our clients count on us to provide security that is nothing short of impenetrable and to do so quietly. We hope to never make the news again.` She notes that it is also essential that the facility is in compliance with all relevant security regulations and standards.
You have been asked to verify compliance as well as to evaluate all current security controls and security measures, including data encryption methods, authentication controls and the safest methods for transferring data into and out of the facility. As you prepare to begin your analysis, you fnd yourself considering an intriguing question: Can these people be sure that I am who I say I am?
You are shown to the ofce made available to you and are provided with system login information, including the name of the wireless network and a wireless key.
Still pondering, you attempt to pull up the facility’s wireless network, but no networks appear in the wireless list. When you search for the wireless network by name, however it is readily found.
What measures can protect client information stored at GFDC?
- A . De-linking of data into client-specifc packets.
- B . Cloud-based applications.
- C . Server-side controls.
- D . Data pruning
SCENARIO
It should be the most secure location housing data in all of Europe, if not the world. The Global Finance Data Collective (GFDC) stores fnancial information and other types of client data from large banks, insurance companies, multinational corporations and governmental agencies. After a long climb on a mountain road that leads only to the facility, you arrive at the security booth. Your credentials are checked and checked again by the guard to visually verify that you are the person pictured on your passport and national identifcation card. You are led down a long corridor with server rooms on each side, secured by combination locks built into the doors. You climb a fight of stairs and are led into an ofce that is lighted brilliantly by skylights where the GFDC Director of Security, Dr. Monique
Batch, greets you. On the far wall you notice a bank of video screens showing different rooms in the facility. At the far end, several screens show different sections of the road up the mountain
Dr. Batch explains once again your mission. As a data security auditor and consultant, it is a dream assignment: The GFDC does not want simply adequate controls, but the best and most effective security that current technologies allow.
`We were hacked twice last year,` Dr. Batch says, `and although only a small number of records were stolen, the bad press impacted our business. Our clients count on us to provide security that is nothing short of impenetrable and to do so quietly. We hope to never make the news again.` She notes that it is also essential that the facility is in compliance with all relevant security regulations and standards.
You have been asked to verify compliance as well as to evaluate all current security controls and security measures, including data encryption methods, authentication controls and the safest methods for transferring data into and out of the facility. As you prepare to begin your analysis, you fnd yourself considering an intriguing question: Can these people be sure that I am who I say I am?
You are shown to the ofce made available to you and are provided with system login information, including the name of the wireless network and a wireless key.
Still pondering, you attempt to pull up the facility’s wireless network, but no networks appear in the wireless list. When you search for the wireless network by name, however it is readily found.
What type of wireless network does GFDC seem to employ?
- A . A hidden network.
- B . A reluctant network.
- C . A user verifed network.
- D . A wireless mesh network.
What must be used in conjunction with disk encryption?
- A . Increased CPU speed.
- B . A strong password.
- C . A digital signature.
- D . Export controls.
Which is NOT a way to validate a person’s identity?
- A . Swiping a smartcard into an electronic reader.
- B . Using a program that creates random passwords.
- C . Answering a question about "something you knowג.
- D . Selecting a picture and tracing a unique pattern on it
Revocation and reissuing of compromised credentials is impossible for which of the following authentication techniques?
- A . Biometric data.
- B . Picture passwords.
- C . Personal identifcation number.
- D . Radio frequency identifcation.
What is the main function of the Amnesic Incognito Live System or TAILS device?
- A . It allows the user to run a self-contained computer from a USB device.
- B . It accesses systems with a credential that leaves no discernable tracks.
- C . It encrypts data stored on any computer on a network.
- D . It causes a system to suspend its security protocols.
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tails-operating-software
Which is NOT a drawback to using a biometric recognition system?
- A . It can require more maintenance and support.
- B . It can be more expensive than other systems
- C . It has limited compatibility across systems.
- D . It is difcult for people to use.
What is a main beneft of data aggregation?
- A . It is a good way to perform analysis without needing a statistician.
- B . It applies two or more layers of protection to a single data record.
- C . It allows one to draw valid conclusions from small data samples.
- D . It is a good way to achieve de-identifcation and unlinkabilty.
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), releasing personally identifable information from a student’s educational record requires written permission from the parent or eligible student in order for information to be?
- A . Released to a prospective employer.
- B . Released to schools to which a student is transferring.
- C . Released to specifc individuals for audit or evaluation purposes.
- D . Released in response to a judicial order or lawfully ordered subpoena.