A CISO is reviewing the security operations center's (SOC) performance. The SOC has a high number of alerts but a low rate of confirmed incidents. Analysts are overwhelmed and may miss real threats. What should the CISO do to improve the SOC's effectiveness?

Add more analysts to handle the alert volume.

Disable all alerts that are not confirmed incidents.

Increase the number of alerts by adding more detection tools.

Implement alert triage rules and tune detection signatures to reduce false positives.

What is the CISO's responsibility regarding legal and regulatory compliance?

To interpret laws without consulting legal counsel

To delegate all compliance matters to external auditors

To ignore compliance if it conflicts with business operations

To ensure the organization meets applicable laws, regulations, and contractual obligations

A healthcare organization's CISO is updating the security governance framework to align with new data protection regulations. The compliance team wants to ensure that policies are consistently enforced across all departments. What should the CISO do first?

Assign each department head to interpret the regulations independently.

Purchase a new compliance management software platform.

Immediately rewrite all security policies to match the new regulations.

Conduct a gap analysis of current policies against the new regulatory requirements.

A company's CISO wants to improve the security culture after a series of policy violations by employees. The violations were mostly due to employees not understanding the policies. What should the CISO do?

Ignore the violations because they were unintentional.

Rewrite the policies in simpler language and provide training on the updated policies.

Send a company-wide email reminding employees to follow policies.

Increase the penalties for policy violations.

Which activity falls under the CISO's responsibility for security operations oversight?

Performing forensic analysis on compromised systems

Ensuring that incident response procedures are tested and updated regularly

Writing firewall rules for new network segments

Installing security patches on servers

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A CISO is reviewing the security operations center's (SOC) performance. The SOC has a high number of alerts but a low rate of confirmed incidents. Analysts are overwhelmed and may miss real threats. What should the CISO do to improve the SOC's effectiveness?
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2foundation · easy
What is the CISO's responsibility regarding legal and regulatory compliance?
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3application · medium
A healthcare organization's CISO is updating the security governance framework to align with new data protection regulations. The compliance team wants to ensure that policies are consistently enforced across all departments. What should the CISO do first?
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4application · medium
A company's CISO wants to improve the security culture after a series of policy violations by employees. The violations were mostly due to employees not understanding the policies. What should the CISO do?
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Which activity falls under the CISO's responsibility for security operations oversight?
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