A junior developer is informed about the impact of new malware on an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) CPU, and the code must be fixed accordingly. Based on the debug, the malware is able to insert itself in another process ‘memory location. Which of the following technologies can the developer enable on the ARM architecture to prevent this type of malware?
Which of the following objectives BEST supports leveraging tabletop exercises in business continuity planning?
The CI/CD pipeline requires code to have close to zero defects and zero vulnerabilities. The current process for any code releases into production uses two-week Agile sprints. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirement?
An analyst has prepared several possible solutions to a successful attack on the company. The solutions need to be implemented with the LEAST amount of downtime. Which of the following should the analyst perform?
During a recent security incident investigation, a security analyst mistakenly turned off the infected machine prior to consulting with a forensic analyst. upon rebooting the machine, a malicious script that
was running as a background process was no longer present. As a result, potentially useful evidence was lost. Which of the following should the security analyst have followed?
A security analyst has been tasked with assessing a new API The analyst needs to be able to test for a variety of different inputs, both malicious and benign, in order to close any vulnerabilities Which of the following should the analyst use to achieve this goal?
A security consultant has been asked to recommend a secure network design that would:
• Permit an existing OPC server to communicate with a new Modbus server that is controlling electrical relays.
• Limit operational disruptions.
Due to the limitations within the Modbus protocol, which of the following configurations should the security engineer recommend as part of the solution?
A penetration tester inputs the following command:
This command will allow the penetration tester to establish a:
A security consultant has been asked to identify a simple, secure solution for a small business with a single access point. The solution should have a single SSID and no guest access. The customer
facility is located in a crowded area of town, so there is a high likelihood that several people will come into range every day. The customer has asked that the solution require low administrative overhead
and be resistant to offline password attacks. Which of the following should the security consultant recommend?
A cloud security architect has been tasked with selecting the appropriate solution given the following:
* The solution must allow the lowest RTO possible.
* The solution must have the least shared responsibility possible.
« Patching should be a responsibility of the CSP.
Which of the following solutions can BEST fulfill the requirements?
A software company is developing an application in which data must be encrypted with a cipher that requires the following:
* Initialization vector
* Low latency
* Suitable for streaming
Which of the following ciphers should the company use?
A security administrator wants to enable a feature that would prevent a compromised encryption key from being used to decrypt all the VPN traffic. Which of the following should the security administrator use?
A cyberanalyst for a government agency is concerned about how Pll is protected A supervisor indicates that a Privacy Impact Assessment must be done. Which of the following describes a function of a Privacy Impact Assessment?
A PKI engineer is defining certificate templates for an organization's CA and would like to ensure at least two of the possible SAN certificate extension fields populate for documentation purposes. Which of the following are explicit options within this extension? (Select two).
A major broadcasting company that requires continuous availability to streaming content needs to be resilient against DDoS attacks Which of the following is the MOST important infrastructure security design element to prevent an outage7
A security architect is working with a new customer to find a vulnerability assessment solution that meets the following requirements:
• Fast scanning
• The least false positives possible
• Signature-based
• A low impact on servers when performing a scan
In addition, the customer has several screened subnets, VLANs, and branch offices. Which of the following will best meet the customer's needs?
A company recently deployed a SIEM and began importing logs from a firewall, a file server, a domain controller a web server, and a laptop. A security analyst receives a series of SIEM alerts and prepares to respond. The following is the alert information:
Which of the following should the security analyst do FIRST?
A security engineer needs to select the architecture for a cloud database that will protect an organization's sensitive data. The engineer has a choice between a single-tenant or a multitenant database architecture offered by a cloud vendor. Which of the following best describes the security benefits of the single-tenant option? (Select two).
A network administrator who manages a Linux web server notices the following traffic:
http://corr.ptia.org/.../.../.../... /etc./shadow
Which of the following Is the BEST action for the network administrator to take to defend against this type of web attack?
A company with multiple locations has taken a cloud-only approach to its infrastructure The company does not have standard vendors or systems resulting in a mix of various solutions put in place by each location The Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure that the internal security team has visibility into all platforms Which of the following best meets this objective?
A security architect must mitigate the risks from what is suspected to be an exposed, private cryptographic key. Which of the following is the best step to take?
A security analyst has been provided the following partial Snort IDS rule to review and add into the company's Snort IDS to identify a CVE:
Which of the following should the analyst recommend to mitigate this type of vulnerability?
An internal security assessor identified large gaps in a company's IT asset inventory system during a monthly asset review. The assessor is aware of an external audit that is underway. In an effort to avoid external findings, the assessor chooses not to report the gaps in the inventory system. Which of the following legal considerations is the assessor directly violating?
A security administrator needs to recommend an encryption protocol after a legacy stream cipher was deprecated when a security flaw was discovered. The legacy cipher excelled at maintaining strong cryptographic security and provided great performance for a streaming video service. Which of the following AES modes should the security administrator recommend given these requirements?
A forensic investigator started the process of gathering evidence on a laptop in response to an incident The investigator took a snapshof of the hard drive, copied relevant log files and then performed a memory dump Which of the following steps in the process should have occurred first?
The general counsel at an organization has received written notice of upcoming litigation. The general counsel has issued a legal records hold. Which of the following actions should the organization take to comply with the request?
An employee's device was missing for 96 hours before being reported. The employee called the help desk to ask for another device Which of the following phases of the incident response cycle needs improvement?
A security officer is requiring all personnel working on a special project to obtain a security clearance requisite with the level of all information being accessed Data on this network must be protected at the same level of each clearance holder The need to know must be vended by the data owner Which of the following should the security officer do to meet these requirements?
Company A is merging with Company B Company A is a small, local company Company B has a large, global presence The two companies have a lot of duplication in their IT systems processes, and procedures On the new Chief Information Officer's (ClO's) first day a fire breaks out at Company B's mam data center Which of the following actions should the CIO take first?
A large organization is planning to migrate from on premises to the cloud. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about security responsibilities. If the company decides to migrate to the cloud, which of the following describes who is responsible for the security of the new physical datacenter?
A security administrator needs to implement a security solution that will
• Limit the attack surface in case of an incident
• Improve access control for external and internal network security.
• Improve performance with less congestion on network traffic
Which of the following should the security administrator do?
A security engineer is creating a single CSR for the following web server hostnames:
• wwwint internal
• www company com
• home.internal
• www internal
Which of the following would meet the requirement?
A network security engineer is designing a three-tier web architecture that will allow a third-party vendor to perform the following audit functions within the organization's cloud environment
• Review communication between all infrastructure endpoints
• Identify unauthorized and malicious data patterns
• Perform automated, risk-mitigating configuration changes
Which of the following should the network security engineer include in the design to address these requirements?
As part of its risk strategy, a company is considering buying insurance for cybersecurity incidents.
Which of the following BEST describes this kind of risk response?
An organization is researching the automation capabilities for systems within an OT network. A security analyst wants to assist with creating secure coding practices and would like to learn about the programming languages used on the PLCs. Which of the following programming languages is the MOST relevant for PLCs?
A security engineer is assessing the security controls of loT systems that are no longer supported for updates and patching. Which of the following is the best mitigation for defending these loT systems?
A company was recently infected by malware. During the root cause analysis. the company determined that several users were installing their own applications. TO prevent further compromises, the company has decided it will only allow authorized applications to run on its systems. Which Of the following should the company implement?
An auditor needs to scan documents at rest for sensitive text. These documents contain both text and Images. Which of the following software functionalities must be enabled in the DLP solution for the auditor to be able to fully read these documents? (Select TWO).
A development team created a mobile application that contacts a company’s back-end APIs housed in a PaaS environment. The APIs have been experiencing high processor utilization due to scraping activities. The security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will prevent and remedy the behavior.
Which of the following would BEST safeguard the APIs? (Choose two.)
An administrator at a software development company would like to protect the integrity Of the company's applications with digital signatures. The developers report that the signing process keeps failing on all applications. The same key pair used for signing, however, is working properly on the website, is valid, and is issued by a trusted CA. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the signature failing?
A recent data breach revealed that a company has a number of files containing customer data across its storage environment. These files are individualized for each employee and are used in tracking various customer orders, inquiries, and issues. The files are not encrypted and can be accessed by anyone. The senior management team would like to address these issues without interrupting existing processes.
Which of the following should a security architect recommend?
city government's IT director was notified by the City council that the following cybersecurity requirements must be met to be awarded a large federal grant:
+ Logs for all critical devices must be retained for 365 days to enable monitoring and threat hunting.
+ All privileged user access must be tightly controlled and tracked to mitigate compromised accounts.
+ Ransomware threats and zero-day vulnerabilities must be quickly identified.
Which of the following technologies would BEST satisfy these requirements? (Select THREE).
An organization is deploying a new, online digital bank and needs to ensure availability and performance. The cloud-based architecture is deployed using PaaS and SaaS solutions, and it was designed with the following considerations:
- Protection from DoS attacks against its infrastructure and web applications is in place.
- Highly available and distributed DNS is implemented.
- Static content is cached in the CDN.
- A WAF is deployed inline and is in block mode.
- Multiple public clouds are utilized in an active-passive architecture.
With the above controls in place, the bank is experiencing a slowdown on the unauthenticated payments page. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A security engineer needs 10 implement a CASB to secure employee user web traffic. A Key requirement is mat relevant event data must be collected from existing on-premises infrastructure components and consumed by me CASB to expand traffic visibility. The solution must be nighty resilient to network outages. Which of the following architectural components would BEST meet these requirements?
A company in the financial sector receives a substantial number of customer transaction requests via email. While doing a root-cause analysis conceding a security breach, the CIRT correlates an unusual spike in port 80 traffic from the IP address of a desktop used by a customer relations employee who has access to several of the compromised accounts. Subsequent antivirus scans of the device do not return an findings, but the CIRT finds undocumented services running on the device. Which of the following controls would reduce the discovery time for similar in the future.
Users are reporting intermittent access issues with a new cloud application that was recently added to the network. Upon investigation, the security administrator notices the human resources department is able to run required queries with the new application, but the marketing department is unable to pull any needed reports on various resources using the new application. Which of the following MOST likely needs to be done to avoid this in the future?
A cybersecurity engineer analyst a system for vulnerabilities. The tool created an OVAL. Results document as output. Which of the following would enable the engineer to interpret the results in a human readable form? (Select TWO.)
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has launched to create a rebuts BCP/DR plan for the entire company. As part of the initiative , the security team must gather data supporting s operational importance for the applications used by the business and determine the order in which the application must be back online. Which of the following be the FIRST step taken by the team?
Leveraging cryptographic solutions to protect data that is in use ensures the data is encrypted:
A company's finance department acquired a new payment system that exports data to an unencrypted file on the system. The company implemented controls on the file so only appropriate personnel are allowed access. Which of the following risk techniques did the department use in this situation?
A company wants to quantify and communicate the effectiveness of its security controls but must establish measures. Which of the following is MOST likely to be included in an effective assessment roadmap for these controls?
An organization’s existing infrastructure includes site-to-site VPNs between datacenters. In the past year, a sophisticated attacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability on the VPN concentrator. Consequently,
the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is making infrastructure changes to mitigate the risk of service loss should another zero-day exploit be used against the VPN solution.
Which of the following designs would be BEST for the CISO to use?
Company A is establishing a contractual with Company B. The terms of the agreement are formalized in a document covering the payment terms, limitation of liability, and intellectual property rights. Which of the following documents will MOST likely contain these elements
A security analyst is validating the MAC policy on a set of Android devices. The policy was written to ensure non-critical applications are unable to access certain resources. When reviewing dmesg, the analyst notes many entries such as:
Despite the deny message, this action was still permit following is the MOST likely fix for this issue?
A company is looking for a solution to hide data stored in databases. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Which of the following techniques should be used?
The Chief information Officer (CIO) asks the system administrator to improve email security at the company based on the following requirements:
* Transaction being requested by unauthorized individuals.
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attackers using email to malware and ransomeware.
* Exfiltration of sensitive company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide anti-malware reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the boar’s concerns for this email migration?
A security architect is given the following requirements to secure a rapidly changing enterprise with an increasingly distributed and remote workforce
• Cloud-delivered services
• Full network security stack
• SaaS application security management
• Minimal latency for an optimal user experience
• Integration with the cloud 1AM platform
Which of the following is the BEST solution?
A security administrator has been tasked with hardening a domain controller against lateral movement attacks. Below is an output of running services:
Which of the following configuration changes must be made to complete this task?
Due to adverse events, a medium-sized corporation suffered a major operational disruption that caused its servers to crash and experience a major power outage. Which of the following should be created to prevent this type of issue in the future?
A financial services company wants to migrate its email services from on-premises servers to a cloud-based email solution. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) must brief board of directors on the potential security concerns related to this migration. The board is concerned about the following.
* Transactions being required by unauthorized individual
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attacker using email to distribute malware and ransom ware.
* Exfiltration of sensitivity company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide an6-malware, reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the board’s concerns for this email migration?
A security analyst discovered that the company's WAF was not properly configured. The main web server was breached, and the following payload was found in one of the malicious requests:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this vulnerability?
Users are claiming that a web server is not accessible. A security engineer logs for the site. The engineer connects to the server and runs netstat -an and receives the following output:
Which of the following is MOST likely happening to the server?
A security analyst wants to keep track of alt outbound web connections from workstations. The analyst's company uses an on-premises web filtering solution that forwards the outbound traffic to a perimeter firewall. When the security analyst gets the connection events from the firewall, the source IP of the outbound web traffic is the translated IP of the web filtering solution. Considering this scenario involving source NAT. which of the following would be the BEST option to inject in the HTTP header to include the real source IP from workstations?
A financial institution has several that currently employ the following controls:
* The severs follow a monthly patching cycle.
* All changes must go through a change management process.
* Developers and systems administrators must log into a jumpbox to access the servers hosting the data using two-factor authentication.
* The servers are on an isolated VLAN and cannot be directly accessed from the internal production network.
An outage recently occurred and lasted several days due to an upgrade that circumvented the approval process. Once the security team discovered an unauthorized patch was installed, they were able to resume operations within an hour. Which of the following should the security administrator recommend to reduce the time to resolution if a similar incident occurs in the future?
Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?
Which of the following is required for an organization to meet the ISO 27018 standard?
A company’s product site recently had failed API calls, resulting in customers being unable to check out and purchase products. This type of failure could lead to the loss of customers and damage to the company’s reputation in the market.
Which of the following should the company implement to address the risk of system unavailability?
A security architect is tasked with securing a new cloud-based videoconferencing and collaboration platform to support a new distributed workforce. The security architect's key objectives are to:
• Maintain customer trust
• Minimize data leakage
• Ensure non-repudiation
Which of the following would be the BEST set of recommendations from the security architect?
The Chief Information Security Officer is concerned about the possibility of employees downloading ‘malicious files from the internet and ‘opening them on corporate workstations. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to reduce this risk?
in a situation where the cost of anti-malware exceeds the potential loss from a malware threat, which of the following is the most cost-effective risk response?
After installing an unapproved application on a personal device, a Chief Executive Officer reported an incident to a security analyst. This device is not controlled by the MDM solution, as stated in the BYOD policy. However, the device contained critical confidential information. The cyber incident response team performed the analysis on the device and found the following log:
Which of the following is the most likely reason for the successful attack?
A company wants to use a process to embed a sign of ownership covertly inside a proprietary document without adding any identifying attributes. Which of the following would be best to use as part of the process to support copyright protections of the document?
A senior security analyst is helping the development team improve the security of an application that is being developed. The developers use third-party libraries and applications. The software in development used old, third-party packages that were not replaced before market distribution. Which of the following should be implemented into the SDLC to resolve the issue?
An organization is referencing NIST best practices for BCP creation while reviewing current internal organizational processes for mission-essential items.
Which of the following phases establishes the identification and prioritization of critical systems and functions?
An organization is considering a BYOD standard to support remote working. The first iteration of the solution will utilize only approved collaboration applications and the ability to move corporate data between those applications. The security team has concerns about the following:
Unstructured data being exfiltrated after an employee leaves the organization
Data being exfiltrated as a result of compromised credentials
Sensitive information in emails being exfiltrated
Which of the following solutions should the security team implement to mitigate the risk of data loss?
An organization is planning for disaster recovery and continuity of operations.
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Review the following scenarios and instructions. Match each relevant finding to the affected host.
After associating scenario 3 with the appropriate host(s), click the host to select the appropriate corrective action for that finding.
Each finding may be used more than once.
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A company hired a third party to develop software as part of its strategy to be quicker to market. The company’s policy outlines the following requirements:
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The credentials used to publish production software to the container registry should be stored in a secure location.
Access should be restricted to the pipeline service account, without the ability for the third-party developer to read the credentials directly.
Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation for storing and monitoring access to these shared credentials?
A home automation company just purchased and installed tools for its SOC to enable incident identification and response on software the company develops. The company would like to prioritize defenses against the following attack scenarios:
Unauthorized insertions into application development environments
Authorized insiders making unauthorized changes to environment configurations
Which of the following actions will enable the data feeds needed to detect these types of attacks on development environments? (Choose two.)
A security engineer was auditing an organization’s current software development practice and discovered that multiple open-source libraries were Integrated into the organization’s software. The organization currently performs SAST and DAST on the software it develops.
Which of the following should the organization incorporate into the SDLC to ensure the security of the open-source libraries?
A junior developer is informed about the impact of new malware on an Advanced RISC Machine (ARM) CPU, and the code must be fixed accordingly. Based on the debug, the malware is able to insert itself in another process memory location.
Which of the following technologies can the developer enable on the ARM architecture to prevent this type of malware?
A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field and leaves the institution vulnerable.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?
A company publishes several APIs for customers and is required to use keys to segregate customer data sets.
Which of the following would be BEST to use to store customer keys?
An organization is implementing a new identity and access management architecture with the following objectives:
Supporting MFA against on-premises infrastructure
Improving the user experience by integrating with SaaS applications
Applying risk-based policies based on location
Performing just-in-time provisioning
Which of the following authentication protocols should the organization implement to support these requirements?
In preparation for the holiday season, a company redesigned the system that manages retail sales and moved it to a cloud service provider. The new infrastructure did not meet the company’s availability requirements. During a postmortem analysis, the following issues were highlighted:
1. International users reported latency when images on the web page were initially loading.
2. During times of report processing, users reported issues with inventory when attempting to place orders.
3. Despite the fact that ten new API servers were added, the load across servers was heavy at peak times.
Which of the following infrastructure design changes would be BEST for the organization to implement to avoid these issues in the future?
An organization recently experienced a ransomware attack. The security team leader is concerned about the attack reoccurring. However, no further security measures have been implemented.
Which of the following processes can be used to identify potential prevention recommendations?
A Chief Information Officer is considering migrating all company data to the cloud to save money on expensive SAN storage.
Which of the following is a security concern that will MOST likely need to be addressed during migration?
Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?
Due to locality and budget constraints, an organization’s satellite office has a lower bandwidth allocation than other offices in the organization. As a result, the local security infrastructure staff is assessing architectural options that will help preserve network bandwidth and increase speed to both internal and external resources while not sacrificing threat visibility.
Which of the following would be the BEST option to implement?
A security analyst runs a vulnerability scan on a network administrator's workstation The network administrator has direct administrative access to the company's SSO web portal The vulnerability scan uncovers cntical vulnerabilities with equally high CVSS scores for the user's browser, OS, email client and an offline password manager Which of the following should the security analyst patch FIRST?
A security solution uses a sandbox environment to execute zero-day software and collect indicators of compromise. Which of the following should the organization do to BEST take advantage of this solution?
Some end users of an e-commerce website are reporting a delay when browsing pages. The website uses TLS 1.2. A security architect for the website troubleshoots by connecting from home to the
website and capturing tramc via Wire-shark. The security architect finds that the issue is the time required to validate the certificate. Which of the following solutions should the security architect
recommend?
A network administrator for a completely air-gapped and closed system has noticed that anomalous external files have been uploaded to one of the critical servers. The administrator has reviewed logs
in the SIEM that were collected from security appliances, network infrastructure devices, and endpoints. Which of the following processes, if executed, would be MOST likely to expose an attacker?
A company is deploying multiple VPNs to support supplier connections into its extranet applications. The network security standard requires:
• All remote devices to have up-to-date antivirus
• An up-to-date and patched OS
Which of the following technologies should the company deploy to meet its security objectives? (Select TWO)_
An architectural firm is working with its security team to ensure that any draft images that are leaked to the public can be traced back to a specific external party. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?
A mobile administrator is reviewing the following mobile device DHCP logs to ensure the proper mobile settings are applied to managed devices:
Which of the following mobile configuration settings is the mobile administrator verifying?
A third-party organization has implemented a system that allows it to analyze customers' data and deliver analysis results without being able to see the raw data. Which of the following is the organization implementing?
A company wants to refactor a monolithic application to take advantage of cloud native services and service microsegmentation to secure sensitive application components. Which of the following should the company implement to ensure the architecture is portable?
In a shared responsibility model for PaaS, which of the following is a customer's responsibility?
A company has decided that only administrators are permitted to use PowerShell on their Windows computers. Which of the following is the BEST way for an administrator to implement this decision?
A developer needs to implement PKI in an autonomous vehicle's software in the most efficient and labor-effective way possible. Which of the following will the developer MOST likely implement?
To save time, a company that is developing a new VPN solution has decided to use the OpenSSL library within Its proprietary software. Which of the following should the company consider to maximize risk reduction from vulnerabilities introduced by OpenSSL?
An investigator is attempting to determine if recent data breaches may be due to issues with a company's web server that offers news subscription services. The investigator has gathered the following
data:
• Clients successfully establish TLS connections to web services provided by the server.
• After establishing the connections, most client connections are renegotiated
• The renegotiated sessions use cipher suite SHR.
Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?
A security engineer needs to review the configurations of several devices on the network to meet the following requirements:
• The PostgreSQL server must only allow connectivity in the 10.1.2.0/24
subnet.
• The SSH daemon on the database server must be configured to listen
to port 4022.
• The SSH daemon must only accept connections from a Single
workstation.
• All host-based firewalls must be disabled on all workstations.
• All devices must have the latest updates from within the past eight
days.
• All HDDs must be configured to secure data at rest.
• Cleartext services are not allowed.
• All devices must be hardened when possible.
Instructions:
Click on the various workstations and network devices to review the posture assessment results. Remediate any possible issues or indicate that no issue is found.
Click on Server A to review output data. Select commands in the appropriate tab to remediate connectivity problems to the pOSTGREsql DATABASE VIA ssh
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PC A
Laptop A
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Server A
A security architect updated the security policy to require a proper way to verify that packets received between two parties have not been tampered with and the connection remains private. Which of the following cryptographic techniques can be used to ensure the security policy is being enforced properly?
A local university that has a global footprint is undertaking a complete overhaul of its website and associated systems. Some of the requirements are:
• Handle an increase in customer demand of resources
• Provide quick and easy access to information
• Provide high-quality streaming media
• Create a user-friendly interface
Which of the following actions should be taken FIRST?
A security analyst has been tasked with providing key information in the risk register. Which of the following outputs or results would be used to BEST provide the information needed to determine the
security posture for a risk decision? (Select TWO).
A client is adding scope to a project. Which of the following processes should be used when requesting updates or corrections to the client's systems?
A security analyst is reviewing a new IOC in which data is injected into an online process. The IOC shows the data injection could happen in the following ways:
• Five numerical digits followed by a dash, followed by four numerical digits; or
• Five numerical digits
When one of these IOCs is identified, the online process stops working. Which of the following regular expressions should be implemented in the NIPS?
Which of the following is the MOST important security objective when applying cryptography to control messages that tell an ICS how much electrical power to output?
A new web server must comply with new secure-by-design principles and PCI DSS. This includes mitigating the risk of an on-path attack. A security analyst is reviewing the following web server configuration:
Which of the following ciphers should the security analyst remove to support the business requirements?
A security analyst notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:
Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?
A small company recently developed prototype technology for a military program. The company’s security engineer is concerned about potential theft of the newly developed, proprietary information.
Which of the following should the security engineer do to BEST manage the threats proactively?
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Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?
A business stores personal client data of individuals residing in the EU in order to process requests for mortgage loan approvals.
Which of the following does the business’s IT manager need to consider?
An organization’s hunt team thinks a persistent threats exists and already has a foothold in the enterprise network.
Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the hunt team to use to entice the adversary to uncover malicious activity?
A security analyst receives an alert from the SIEM regarding unusual activity on an authorized public SSH jump server. To further investigate, the analyst pulls the event logs directly from /var/log/auth.log: graphic.ssh_auth_log.
Which of the following actions would BEST address the potential risks by the activity in the logs?
An organization recently started processing, transmitting, and storing its customers’ credit card information. Within a week of doing so, the organization suffered a massive breach that resulted in the exposure of the customers’ information.
Which of the following provides the BEST guidance for protecting such information while it is at rest and in transit?
A security analyst is reviewing the following output:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?
A security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times.
Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?
A company plans to build an entirely remote workforce that utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure. The Chief Information Security Officer asks the security engineer to design connectivity to meet the following requirements:
Only users with corporate-owned devices can directly access servers hosted by the cloud provider.
The company can control what SaaS applications each individual user can access.
User browser activity can be monitored.
Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?
A security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will meet the following requirements:
Identify sensitive data in the provider’s network
Maintain compliance with company and regulatory guidelines
Detect and respond to insider threats, privileged user threats, and compromised accounts
Enforce datacentric security, such as encryption, tokenization, and access control
Which of the following solutions should the security engineer recommend to address these requirements?
A security analyst is concerned that a malicious piece of code was downloaded on a Linux system. After some research, the analyst determines that the suspected piece of code is performing a lot of input/output (I/O) on the disk drive.
Based on the output above, from which of the following process IDs can the analyst begin an investigation?
During a remodel, a company’s computer equipment was moved to a secure storage room with cameras positioned on both sides of the door. The door is locked using a card reader issued by the security team, and only the security team and department managers have access to the room. The company wants to be able to identify any unauthorized individuals who enter the storage room by following an authorized employee.
Which of the following processes would BEST satisfy this requirement?
An organization is designing a network architecture that must meet the following requirements:
Users will only be able to access predefined services.
Each user will have a unique allow list defined for access.
The system will construct one-to-one subject/object access paths dynamically.
Which of the following architectural designs should the organization use to meet these requirements?
An IT administrator is reviewing all the servers in an organization and notices that a server is missing crucial practice against a recent exploit that could gain root access.
Which of the following describes the administrator’s discovery?
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