CISA Exam - Important Types of Antivirus / Antimalware

CISA Quick Tips: 10

Types of Antimalware / Types of Viurses - You must know for your CISA

Exam:

1. Signature Based- detects known viruses

 

    2. Behaviour based. – can detects unknown viruses based on their

       behaviour (abnormal behaviour).

Today  I shall again present one unmatched table with two columns. You

have to match Column A & B Yourself.  Column A lists important Antivirus

types.   Column B includes important characteristics

 

A	B
Integrity Checkers	insert a little part of it
Behaviour Blockers	Cyclic Redundancy Check
Immunizers	Useful Hardware Antivirus

 

 

CISA Type Question10:

 

An IS Auditor while auditing finds a software antivirus with following

characteristics:

i. Works Based on probability of available data

ii.Monitors abnormal character

ii.does not check a database of definite pattern

The above Antivirus is definitely :

1. Heuristic in nature

2. Signature based in nature

3. None of the above two.

 

Further Reference:

1. CISA Review Manual by ISACA

2. All in One CISSP Guide by Shon Harris

 

Answer to CISA Type Question 09:

Answer is 2. Substantive Testing. You have to tell what are the

other Scenario where Substantive testing is used.

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