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According to private sector data classification levels, how would salary levels and medical information be classified?

  1. Public.
  2. Internal Use Only.
  3. Restricted.
  4. Confidential.

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Typically there are three to four levels of information classification used by most organizations:
Confidential: Information that, if released or disclosed outside of the organization, would create severe problems for the organization. For example, information that provides a competitive advantage is important to the technical or financial success (like trade secrets, intellectual property, or research designs), or protects the privacy of individuals would be considered confidential. Information may include payroll information, health records, credit information, formulas, technical designs, restricted regulatory information, senior management internal correspondence, or business strategies or plans. These may also be called top secret, privileged, personal, sensitive, or highly confidential. In other words this information is ok within a defined group in the company such as marketing or sales, but is not suited for release to anyone else in the company without permission.
The following answers are incorrect:
Public: Information that may be disclosed to the general public without concern for harming the company, employees, or business partners. No special protections are required, and information in this category is sometimes referred to as unclassified. For example, information that is posted to a company's public Internet site, publicly released announcements, marketing materials, cafeteria menus, and any internal documents that would not present harm to the company if they were disclosed would be classified as public. While there is little concern for confidentiality, integrity and availability should be considered.
Internal Use Only: Information that could be disclosed within the company, but could harm the company if disclosed externally. Information such as customer lists, vendor pricing, organizational policies, standards and procedures, and internal organization announcements would need baseline security protections, but do not rise to the level of protection as confidential information. In other words, the information may be used freely within the company but any unapproved use outside the company can pose a chance of harm.
Restricted: Information that requires the utmost protection or, if discovered by unauthorized personnel, would cause irreparable harm to the organization would have the highest level of classification. There may be very few pieces of information like this within an organization, but data classified at this level requires all the access control and protection mechanisms available to the organization. Even when information classified at this level exists, there will be few copies of it


Reference:

Hernandez CISSP, Steven (2012-12-21). Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK, Third Edition ((ISC)2 Press) (Kindle Locations 952-976). Auerbach Publications. Kindle Edition.



Which of the following would be the best criterion to consider in determining the classification of an information asset?

  1. Value
  2. Age
  3. Useful life
  4. Personal association

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Information classification should be based on the value of the information to the
organization and its sensitivity (reflection of how much damage would accrue due to disclosure).
Age is incorrect. While age might be a consideration in some cases, the guiding principles should be value and sensitivity.
Useful life. While useful lifetime is relevant to how long data protections should be applied, the classification is based on information value and sensitivity.
Personal association is incorrect. Information classification decisions should be based on value of the information and its sensitiviry.
References
CBK, pp. 101 - 102.



Which of the following is not a responsibility of an information (data) owner?

  1. Determine what level of classification the information requires.
  2. Periodically review the classification assignments against business needs.
  3. Delegate the responsibility of data protection to data custodians.
  4. Running regular backups and periodically testing the validity of the backup data.

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

This responsibility would be delegated to a data custodian rather than being performed directly by the information owner.
"Determine what level of classification the information requires" is incorrect. This is one of the major responsibilities of an information owner.
"Periodically review the classification assignments against business needs" is incorrect. This is one of the major responsibilities of an information owner.
"Delegates responsibility of maintenance of the data protection mechanisms to the data custodian" is incorrect. This is a responsibility of the information owner.


Reference:

CBK p. 105.
AIO3, p. 53-54, 960



Which of the following embodies all the detailed actions that personnel are required to follow?

  1. Standards
  2. Guidelines
  3. Procedures
  4. Baselines

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Procedures are step-by-step instructions in support of of the policies, standards, guidelines and baselines. The procedure indicates how the policy will be implemented and who does what to accomplish the tasks."
Standards is incorrect. Standards are a "Mandatory statement of minimum requirements that support some part of a policy, the standards in this case is your own company standards and not standards such as the ISO standards"
Guidelines is incorrect. "Guidelines are discretionary or optional controls used to enable individuals to make judgments with respect to security actions."
Baselines is incorrect. Baselines "are a minimum acceptable level of security. This minimum is implemented using specific rules necessary to implement the security controls in support of the policy and standards." For example, requiring a password of at leat 8 character would be an example. Requiring all users to have a minimun of an antivirus, a personal firewall, and an anti spyware tool could be another example.


Reference:

CBK, pp. 12 - 16. Note especially the discussion of the "hammer policy" on pp. 16-17 for the differences between policy, standard, guideline and procedure.
AIO3, pp. 88-93.






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