Quiz 77 

 

 

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Willoughby Article
Paliotta Article
Norifusa Article
Walker Article

 

CPE Quiz # 77

Based on Information Systems Control Journal Volume 2, 2001

A passing score of 75 percent qualifies for one (1) hour of CISA/CISM/CGEIT Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Credit

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Willoughby Article

1. According to the author, most user accounts are secured by a simple keyboard password that can be cracked in less than 10 minutes.
2. Spending on user authentication products to safely identify users has steadily and proportionally increased within the security market.
3. Multifactor authentication always combines "something you know," passwords, with "something you are," biometrics, or "something you have," tokens.
4. A major barrier to strong authentication in e-commerce is the false reject--incorrectly rejecting the authentication of a valid user.
5. According to International Data Corporation, approximately US $4 billion was spent in the US on information security countermeasures in 1999.

Paliotta Article

6. The author recommends that audit professionals raise awareness of e-commerce information protection and security by management and the board of directors.
7. Examples of regulations that raise the importance of e-commerce security include: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the EU data privacy directive.

Norifusa Article

8. Examples of Internet access problems that users encounter are error messages such as "access denied," "network unreachable" or "connection refused." Some reasons for these failures may include: inconsistent access control policies among firewalls, IP routers and network information on the user's PC and applications, poorly organized IP routing, or inappropriate domain name system configuration.
9. The author recommends stateful packet inspection for improving performance for encrypted IP packets.
10. According to a study by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the majority of security breaches come from external, not internal, users.

Walker Article

11. An advantage of two-factor authentication is that it can reduce help desk costs, since the majority of help desk expense relates to lost or forgotten passwords.
12. According to an InformationWeek/PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, approximately six in 10 companies that use two-factor authentication do so because of industry standards or regulations.

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