Scenario: An organization has made a decision to address Information Security formally and consistently by adopting established best practices and industry standards. The organization is a small retail merchant but it is expected to grow to a global customer base of many millions of customers in just a few years.
This global retail company is expected to accept credit card payments. Which of the following is of MOST concern when defining a security program for this organization?
During the last decade, what trend has caused the MOST serious issues in relation to physical security?
When project costs continually increase throughout implementation due to large or rapid changes in customer
or user requirements, this is commonly known as:
Bob waits near a secured door, holding a box. He waits until an employee walks up to the secured door and
uses the special card in order to access the restricted area of the target company. Just as the employee opens
the door, Bob walks up to the employee (still holding the box) and asks the employee to hold the door open so
that he can enter. What is the best way to undermine the social engineering activity of tailgating?
A consultant is hired to do physical penetration testing at a large financial company. In the first day of his
assessment, the consultant goes to the company’s building dressed like an electrician and waits in the lobby for
an employee to pass through the main access gate, then the consultant follows the employee behind to get into
the restricted area. Which type of attack did the consultant perform?
Scenario: Most industries require compliance with multiple government regulations and/or industry standards to meet data protection and privacy mandates.
What is one proven method to account for common elements found within separate regulations and/or standards?
Scenario: An organization has made a decision to address Information Security formally and consistently by adopting established best practices and industry standards. The organization is a small retail merchant but it is expected to grow to a global customer base of many millions of customers in just a few years.
The organization has already been subject to a significant amount of credit card fraud. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for this fraud?
Scenario: You are the newly hired Chief Information Security Officer for a company that has not previously had a senior level security practitioner. The company lacks a defined security policy and framework for their Information Security Program. Your new boss, the Chief Financial Officer, has asked you to draft an outline of a security policy and recommend an industry/sector neutral information security control framework for implementation.
Which of the following industry / sector neutral information security control frameworks should you recommend for implementation?
Human resource planning for security professionals in your organization is a:
Which of the following conditions would be the MOST probable reason for a security project to be rejected by the executive board of an organization?
TESTED 16 Sep 2025
