712-50 ECCouncil EC-Council Certified CISO (CCISO) Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
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Scenario: Your corporate systems have been under constant probing and attack from foreign IP addresses for more than a week. Your security team and security infrastructure have performed well under the stress. You are confident that your defenses have held up under the test, but rumors are spreading that sensitive customer data has been stolen and is now being sold on the Internet by criminal elements. During your investigation of the rumored compromise you discover that data has been breached and you have discovered the repository of stolen data on a server located in a foreign country. Your team now has full access to the data on the foreign server.
What action should you take FIRST?
As the CISO you need to write the IT security strategic plan. Which of the following is the MOST important to review before you start writing the plan?
SCENARIO: A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) recently had a third party conduct an audit of the security program. Internal policies and international standards were used as audit baselines. The audit report was presented to the CISO and a variety of high, medium and low rated gaps were identified.
Which of the following is the FIRST action the CISO will perform after receiving the audit report?
Scenario: You are the CISO and have just completed your first risk assessment for your organization. You find many risks with no security controls, and some risks with inadequate controls. You assign work to your staff to create or adjust existing security controls to ensure they are adequate for risk mitigation needs.
When adjusting the controls to mitigate the risks, how often should the CISO perform an audit to verify the controls?
Scenario: You are the CISO and have just completed your first risk assessment for your organization. You find many risks with no security controls, and some risks with inadequate controls. You assign work to your staff to create or adjust existing security controls to ensure they are adequate for risk mitigation needs.
When formulating the remediation plan, what is a required input?
Which technology can provide a computing environment without requiring a dedicated hardware backend?
Of the following types of SOCs (Security Operations Centers), which one would be MOST likely used if the CISO has decided to outsource the infrastructure and administration of it?
A Security Operations (SecOps) Manager is considering implementing threat hunting to be able to make better decisions on protecting information and assets.
What is the MAIN goal of threat hunting to the SecOps Manager?
What is a Statement of Objectives (SOA)?
Which of the following strategies provides the BEST response to a ransomware attack?
Which of the following is the MOST effective method to counter phishing attacks?
What is an approach to estimating the strengths and weaknesses of alternatives used to determine options, which provide the BEST approach to achieving benefits while preserving savings called?
As the Risk Manager of an organization, you are task with managing vendor risk assessments. During the assessment, you identified that the vendor is engaged with high profiled clients, and bad publicity can jeopardize your own brand.
Which is the BEST type of risk that defines this event?
When managing a project, the MOST important activity in managing the expectations of stakeholders is:
Which of the following is considered the MOST effective tool against social engineering?
Devising controls for information security is a balance between?
What is the purpose of the statement of retained earnings of an organization?
To make sure that the actions of all employees, applications, and systems follow the organization’s rules and regulations can BEST be described as which of the following?
A CISO must conduct risk assessments using a method where the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) receives impact data in financial terms to use as input to select the proper level of coverage in a new cybersecurity insurance policy.
What is the MOST effective method of risk analysis to provide the CFO with the information required?
A CISO decides to analyze the IT infrastructure to ensure security solutions adhere to organizational implementation and management requirements. Which of the following principles does this BEST demonstrate?