Control Types
Dealing with Risk
Quantitative Risk
Deflecting Risk
RTO
100
Access control list
What is a technical control?
100
What it's called when a report does not identify an actual threat.
What is false negative?
100
Lisa needs to calculate the total ALE for a group of servers used in the network. During the past two years, five of the servers failed. The hardware cost to replace each server is $3,500, and the downtime has resulted in $2,500 of additional losses. What is the ALE?
What is $10,000?
100
Choosing not to participate in an activity
What is risk-avoidance?
100
MTTR
What is mean time to repair?
200
acquiring new systems or services
What is management security control?
200
Jodi, a security administrator, needs to get her coworkers opinions to evaluate the current risk. What type of risk assessment is this?
What is qualitative risk assessment?
200
Bob needs to calculate the total ALE for a group of servers used in the network. During the past three years, 6 of the servers failed. The hardware cost to replace each server is $2,000. What is the ALE?
What is $4,000?
200
Putting security measure in place to lower the risk
What is risk mitigation?
200
RPO
What is recovery point objective?
300
performing an audit
What is technical security control?
300
Embedded links, attached files, fake sites, and rogue access points are all examples of this.
What are threat vectors?
300
Justin needs to calculate the SLE for switches on the network. During the past year, 10 of the switches failed. The current overall cost for all switches has been $20,000. What is the SLE?
What is $2,000?
300
Putting a fence around the work place
What is risk deterrence?
300
RTO
What is recovery time objectives?
400
security guards
What is operational security control?
400
This is a report that isn't true.
What is false positive?
400
Lisa needs to calculate the total ALE for a group of servers used in the network. During the past five years, five of the servers failed. The hardware cost to replace each server is $4,000, and the downtime has resulted in $5,000 of additional losses. What is the ALE?
What is $5,000?
400
Buying insurance
What is risk transference?
400
MTBF
What is mean time between failure?
500
evaluating risk based on the quantitative model
What is management security control?
500
These are the primary reasons we apply new patches for software.
What are vulnerabilities?
500
You need to calculate the ALE for a server. The value of the server is $3,000, but it has crashed 10 times in the past year. Each time it crashed, it resulted in a 10% loss. What is the ALE?
What is $3,000?
500
A business decision to pay out of pocket for a risk
What is risk acceptance?
500
MTTF
What is mean time to failure?