The Threat Landscape

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Attacking systems by exploiting otherwise unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities

is also known as:

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First-day exploits
Phishing
Secret sauce
Zero-day exploits

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What are the primary motivations of the “Hacktivist”?

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The appreciation of their country’s leaders
Political, social, or moral disagreements
Food, wine, and gambling
The cost of commercial software and support

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What central component is necessary to form a botnet?

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Transformer
DNS server
Command & Control (C&C) Server
Ethernet switch

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What is it called when a fraudulent email masquerades as a legitimate

communication in an attempt to get a user to reveal sensitive information?

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Harpooning
Baselining
Phishing
Trolling

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What is the goal of the “Cyber Terrorist”?

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Adoption of Bitcoin as a primary national currency
Peace through understanding
Stable world markets
Intimidation through disruption and damage

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What is the motivation of the bad actor known as the “Explorer”?

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Food
Money
Notoriety
Ideology

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What is the motivation of the “Cyber Terrorist”?

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Compassion
Fortune
Ideology
Fame

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What is the motive of the “Cyber Criminal”?

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Fame
Intimidation
Ideology
Money

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What is the name of the malware that takes over a computer system and holds
hostage the disk drives or other data?

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Kidnapware
Phishingware
Scareware
Ransomware

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What is the primary motivation of the “Cyber Warrior”?

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The political interest of their country’s government
Money
Fame
The adoption of Bitcoin as a national currency
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How does implementing multiple security point products from multiple vendors
affect managing an environment?

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Saves money on rackspace and cooling costs.

Requires fewer staff members.

More complicated and more expensive.

Simpler and less expensive.

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Internally to the CIO’s company, what is the overall impact when a cyber attack
causes extended downtime, and employees’ time is diverted to post-attack
activities?

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Overtime pay is approved.

Morale is increased.

Productivity is reduced.

Productivity is increased.

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On average, how can a CIO’s tenure be characterized?

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The tenure of a CIO is a step on the path to CFO.

The tenure of a CIO is generally stress-free and relaxing.

CIOs have the longest tenures among C-level executives.

CIOs have the shortest tenures among C-level executives.

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Regulatory fines related to serious breaches can be characterized in which way?

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Fines are never imposed due to any form of cyber attacks.

They are insignificant in all respects.

They can be enormous and seriously impact the bottom line.

The proceeds help stimulate the economy.

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What is becoming a regular topic between CIOs, the other C-level executives, and
the board of directors?

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Executive compensation

The allocation of window and corner offices.

The relative value of various SaaS offerings.

Implementing cyber security

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What is the primary responsibility of a CIO?

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Creating all the information in a company.

Controlling the Information Technology (IT) resources of a company.

Choosing which laptop models to purchase for a company.

Determining where each information resource will be routed in a company.

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What will a CIO do once they understand the company’s business goals and
priorities?

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Attend many industry conferences.

Analyze and design new products.

Analyze and design the IT infrastructure so that it aligns with those business goals.

Create alternative business plans.

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When investments are made in IT infrastructure, what should a CIO do next?

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Compare budgets with other C-level executives.

Negotiate for quantity discounts.

Show how these investments deliver measurable results.

Fill out the warranty cards right away.

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When the general public learns of a serious breach, what is their likely reaction?

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Disbelief followed shortly by acceptance.

An erosion of trust leading to a decline in business with the breached company.

Empathy and compassion.

Apathy leading to an increase in business with the breached company.

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Why must a CIO work closely with the other C-level executives?
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To make sure they use strong passwords.

To understand the company’s business goals and priorities.

The other C-level execs always need help with their computers.

To help choose which laptops to purchase for the company.

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How long has the role of CISO been present?

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The role of CISO is relatively new.

The role of CISO does not exist yet.

The role of CISO is the oldest C-level position.

The role of CISO has existed for 129 years.

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In many of the breaches, tens of millions of credit cards become compromised, and
personally identifiable information for millions of individuals are stolen. What is one
result?

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Increase in share price

Market capitalization increase

Class-action lawsuits

Clearance sales

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In what ways are CISOs often expected to represent the company?

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Career day at a local school.

Presenting new products at a trade show booth.

Thought leadership, partnership development, and customer engagement.

Public relations, advertising, and marketing.

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Originally, the role of CISO was mostly concerned with which topic?

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Finance

Budgeting

Operations

Compliance

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What can be said for a company’s data that resides outside their buildings?

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It is impossible to even find.

It is impossible to secure or protect.

It must be secured and protected just the same.

It is already secured and protected by the very nature of the cloud.

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What do the other C-level executives want from a CISO?

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A concrete assessment of information risk and value.

A concrete assessment of website costs.

A concrete assessment of vendor performance.

A concrete assessment of database performance.

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What is the result of these breaches becoming the targets of government

regulators?

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Lower insurance rates

Unexpected tax audits

Increased health department inspections

Huge fines

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What is the term for when departments or individuals go outside the corporate
policies and spin up their own applications, utilize unapproved or uncoordinated
SaaS services, or otherwise allow what may be key information assets to be stored
out of our control?

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Vapor IT

Ninja IT

Shadow IT

Dodgy IT

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What results from the loss of control of customers’ personally identifiable

information?

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The loss of customer trust and lasting damage to brand reputation.

A rise in customer-created crowdfunding initiatives.

The loss of customer trust and a strengthening of brand reputation.

An increase in customer sympathy and a strengthening of brand reputation.

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Where are the information assets in a typical company today?

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Inside the main building.

Scattered all over the place.

Stored in carefully controlled servers.

Consolidated in a central mainframe.

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A CFO’s responsibility is to manage financial risk, and that covers which other
element?

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Costs associated with the building’s janitorial contractor.

All the information and data in the company.

The after-hours card games.

The catered lunch in the boardroom.

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Being trustworthy with customer data is now a part of which outcome?

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Crafting a better user experience.

Regulatory fines.

Building brand loyalty.

Decreasing revenues.

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How does a CFO treat intangible assets such as intellectual property, trade secrets,
manufacturing methods, and the information about customers?

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More responsible for the financial risks to those information assets than any others.

Not responsible at all.

Just as responsible for the financial risks to those information assets as any others.

Paper assets

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Looking into the past, a CFO will create which kind of reports?

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Reporting on the prior financial performance of the company.

Timecard reports for individual employees.

TPS reports

Billable hours

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Since it uses information from every corner of the business, what does a company’s
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system require to help the CFO understand
what’s happening now, and plan for the future?

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A gaggle of consultants.

Several reams of paper.

Accurate and trustworthy information.

Last quarter’s TPS reports.

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What are the consequences if a CFO’s reports are not accurate?

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Other CFOs in the area will catch the error and help fix it.
There are no consequences since nobody actually reads those reports.

The next report must have an offsetting error to compensate.

From having to re-state the data, to being found in violation of financial

regulations.

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What does a CFO rely on to create forecasts of what will happen to the company in
the future?

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Access to good information.

Advice of Wall Street analysts.

Accurate inventory data.

An endless supply of coffee.

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What is the primary responsibility of a CFO?

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To develop new products and services.

To manage the finances and the financial risks of the company.

To oversee the factory floor.

To manage the company’s payroll.

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What poses one of the greatest risks to the financial value of a company’s
information assets?

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Cyber threats

Earthquakes

Floods

Spelling errors

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What role does a CFO play in new business initiatives, product launches and/or new
service offerings?

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Provides advice on engineering.

Conducts focus group research.

Provides advice on marketing.

Analyzes the financial impact.

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Why is it risky to keep using an operating system that is no longer supported or

updated?

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The computer may reboot.

The hard drive may fail.

Many cyber attacks exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in old, unsupported operating

systems.

The latest social media tools may not work on the old operating system.

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What tool can you use to help “remember” all your passwords?

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Vitamin E

Yellow sticky notes.

A password manager.

A rubber band.

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Where can you download the highly-rated and free FortiClient security product
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freeforticlient.com

forticlient.com

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Your favorite malware marketplace.

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Two-factor authentication uses the combination of “something you know” with

which other element?

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Something you want.

Something you have forgotten.

Something you will never know.

Something you have.

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What do you call an unsolicited email message that masquerades as coming from a
legitimate sender, and attempts to get you to disclose sensitive information or click
on a link?

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Phishing

Virus

Trojan

Malware

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If a vendor or website offers two-factor authentication, what is the recommended

action?
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Wait for everyone else to do it.

Politely decline.

Enable and use two-factor authentication.

Immediately reboot your computer.

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When you receive an unsolicited email, what should you do if it has an attachment?

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Open the attachment to learn how to make money online.

Don’t open the attachment.

Forward the email to all your friends.

Immediately reboot your computer.

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What is the recommendation for passwords on all the systems and websites that
you use?
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Use the same password for each system or website.

Never change your passwords.

Use “123456” as your password on all systems and websites.

Use different passwords for each system or website.

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What action can be taken in advance to help protect your data from corruption
from malware?

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Reboot your computer.

Buy a substantial amount of Bitcoin currency.

Set up regular backups.

Disable all anti-virus software.

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Why is it a security problem if you use the same password for all the systems and
websites you use?
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There will be uneven wear on your keyboard.

If the bad guys break into one of them, they have your password for all of them.

The bad guys will give up too easily.

It increases the difficulty of brute force password attacks.

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Two-factor authentication uses the combination of “something you know” with

which other element?

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Something you will never know.

Something you have.

Something you have forgotten.

Something you want.

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If a vendor or website offers two-factor authentication, what is the recommended
action?

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Immediately reboot your computer.

Wait for everyone else to do it.

Politely decline.

Enable and use two-factor authentication.

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Where can you download the highly-rated and free FortiClient security product
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freeforticlient.com

forticlientfree.com

Your favorite malware marketplace.

forticlient.com

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Why is it a security problem if you use the same password for all the systems and
websites you use?

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It increases the difficulty of brute force password attacks.

If the bad guys break into one of them, they have your password for all of them.

The bad guys will give up too easily.

There will be uneven wear on your keyboard.

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Why is it risky to keep using an operating system that is no longer supported or

updated?

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The hard drive may fail.

Many cyber attacks exploit unpatched vulnerabilities in old, unsupported operating

systems.

The computer may reboot.

The latest social media tools may not work on the old operating system.

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What percentage of malware is distributed by email?

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10%

Over 50%

99%

5%

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To prevent spammers from learning that you’ve seen one of their emails, what
should you do?

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Set your email client to not automatically download the images in email messages.

Immediately reboot your computer.

Delete the email message.

Reply to the sender of the email message.

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When you receive an unsolicited email, what should you do if it has an attachment?

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Don’t open the attachment.

Immediately reboot your computer.

Open the attachment to learn how to make money online.

Forward the email to all your friends.

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What is the recommendation for passwords on all the systems and websites that
you use?

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Use the same password for each system or website.

Use different passwords for each system or website.

Use “123456” as your password on all systems and websites.

Never change your passwords.

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How often should you change your passwords?

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Each time there is a total solar eclipse.

Never

Once in a blue moon.

On a regular basis.