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 customer reports being unable to connect to a website at www.test.com to consume services. The customer notices the web application has the following published cipher suite:
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the customer’s inability to connect?
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 notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:
Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?
A company wants to protect its intellectual property from theft. The company has already applied ACLs and DACs.
Which of the following should the company use to prevent data theft?
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 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 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 developer is creating a new mobile application for a company. The application uses REST API and TLS 1.2 to communicate securely with the external back-end server. Due to this configuration, the company is concerned about HTTPS interception attacks.
Which of the following would be the BEST solution against this type of attack?
A company is moving most of its customer-facing production systems to the cloud-facing production systems to the cloud. IaaS is the service model being used. The Chief Executive Officer is concerned about the type of encryption available and requires the solution must have the highest level of security.
Which of the following encryption methods should the cloud security engineer select during the implementation phase?
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?
An organization is planning for disaster recovery and continuity of operations.
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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?
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?
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?
A company created an external application for its customers. A security researcher now reports that the application has a serious LDAP injection vulnerability that could be leveraged to bypass authentication and authorization.
Which of the following actions would BEST resolve the issue? (Choose two.)
A small business requires a low-cost approach to theft detection for the audio recordings it produces and sells.
Which of the following techniques will MOST likely meet the business’s needs?
An e-commerce company is running a web server on premises, and the resource utilization is usually less than 30%. During the last two holiday seasons, the server experienced performance issues because of too many connections, and several customers were not able to finalize purchase orders. The company is looking to change the server configuration to avoid this kind of performance issue.
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?
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 security engineer has been asked to close all non-secure connections from the corporate network. The engineer is attempting to understand why the corporate UTM will not allow users to download email via IMAPS. The engineer formulates a theory and begins testing by creating the firewall ID 58, and users are able to download emails correctly by using IMAP instead. The network comprises three VLANs:
The security engineer looks at the UTM firewall rules and finds the following:
Which of the following should the security engineer do to ensure IMAPS functions properly on the corporate user network?
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 security analyst is investigating a possible buffer overflow attack. The following output was found on a user’s workstation:
graphic.linux_randomization.prg
Which of the following technologies would mitigate the manipulation of memory segments?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
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?
During a system penetration test, a security engineer successfully gained access to a shell on a Linux host as a standard user and wants to elevate the privilege levels.
Which of the following is a valid Linux post-exploitation method to use to accomplish this goal?
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 SOC analyst is reviewing malicious activity on an external, exposed web server. During the investigation, the analyst determines specific traffic is not being logged, and there is no visibility from the WAF for the web application.
Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
A company processes data subject to NDAs with partners that define the processing and storage constraints for the covered data. The agreements currently do not permit moving the covered data to the cloud, and the company would like to renegotiate the terms of the agreements.
Which of the following would MOST likely help the company gain consensus to move the data to the cloud?
A security analyst is researching containerization concepts for an organization. The analyst is concerned about potential resource exhaustion scenarios on the Docker host due to a single application that is overconsuming available resources.
Which of the following core Linux concepts BEST reflects the ability to limit resource allocation to containers?
A security engineer is trying to identify instances of a vulnerability in an internally developed line of business software. The software is hosted at the company's internal data center. Although a standard vulnerability definition does not exist, the identification and remediation results should be tracked in the company's vulnerability management system. Which of the following should the engineer use to identify this vulnerability?
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 user forwarded a suspicious email to a security analyst for review. The analyst examined the email and found that neither the URL nor the attachment showed any indication of malicious activities. Which of the following intelligence collection methods should the analyst use to confirm the legitimacy of the email?
A company is experiencing a large number of attempted network-based attacks against its online store. To determine the best course of action, a security analyst reviews the following logs.
Which of the following should the company do next to mitigate the risk of a compromise from these attacks?
After a server was compromised an incident responder looks at log files to determine the attack vector that was used The incident responder reviews the web server log files from the time before an unexpected SSH session began:
Which of the following is the most likely vulnerability that was exploited based on the log files?
Which of the following best describes what happens if chain of custody is broken?
A security engineer investigates an incident and determines that a rogue device is on the network. Further investigation finds that an employee's personal device has been set up to access company resources and does not comply with standard security controls. Which of the following should the security engineer recommend to reduce the risk of future reoccurrence?
A security engineer is concerned about the threat of side-channel attacks The company experienced a past attack that degraded parts of a SCADA system, causing a fluctuation to 20,000rpm from its normal operating range As a result, the part deteriorated more quickly than the mean time to failure A further investigation revealed the attacker was able to determine the acceptable rpm range, and the malware would then fluctuate the rpm until the pan failed Which of the following solutions would be best to prevent a side-channel attack in the future?
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?
A user in the finance department uses a laptop to store a spreadsheet that contains confidential financial information for the company. Which of the following would be the best way to protect the file while the user brings the laptop between locations? (Select two).
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 managed security provider (MSP) is engaging with a customer who was working through a complete digital transformation Part of this transformation involves a move to cloud servers to ensure a scalable, high-performance, online user experience The current architecture includes:
• Directory servers
• Web servers
• Database servers
• Load balancers
• Cloud-native VPN concentrator
• Remote access server
The MSP must secure this environment similarly to the infrastructure on premises Which of the following should the MSP put in place to BEST meet this objective? (Select THREE)
A company is in the process of refreshing its entire infrastructure The company has a business-critical process running on an old 2008 Windows server If this server fails, the company would lose millions of dollars in revenue. Which of the following actions should the company should take?
A penetration tester inputs the following command:
This command will allow the penetration tester to establish a:
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 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 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 software developer created an application for a large, multinational company. The company is concerned the program code could be reverse engineered by a foreign entity and intellectual property would be lost. Which of the following techniques should be used to prevent this situation?
An IT department is currently working to implement an enterprise DLP solution. Due diligence and best practices must be followed in regard to mitigating risk. Which of the following ensures that authorized modifications are well planned and executed?
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 Chief Executive Officer of an online retailer notices a sudden drop in sales A security analyst at the retailer detects a redirection of unsecure web traffic to a competitor's site Which of the following would best prevent this type of attack?
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?
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?
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?
A security review of the architecture for an application migration was recently completed. The following observations were made:
• External inbound access is blocked.
• A large amount of storage is available.
• Memory and CPU usage are low.
• The load balancer has only a single server assigned.
• Multiple APIs are integrated.
Which of the following needs to be addressed?
Which of the following is a security concern for DNP3?
An organization is designing a MAC scheme (or critical servers running GNU/Linux. The security engineer is investigating SELinux but is confused about how to read labeling contexts. The engineer executes the command stat ./secretfile and receives the following output:
Which of the following describes the correct order of labels shown in the output above?
A small bank is evaluating different methods to address and resolve the following requirements
" Must be able to store credit card data using the smallest amount of data possible
• Must be compliant with PCI DSS
• Must maintain confidentiality if one piece of the layer is compromised
Which of the following is the best solution for the bank?
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?
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?
During a review of events, a security analyst notes that several log entries from the FIM system identify changes to firewall rule sets. While coordinating a response to the FIM entries, the analyst receives alerts from the DLP system that indicate an employee is sending sensitive data to an external email address. Which of the following would be the most relevant to review in order to gain a better understanding of whether these events are associated with an 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?
Which of the following technologies would benefit the most from the use of biometric readers proximity badge entry systems, and the use of hardware security tokens to access various environments and data entry systems?
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.
An organization is establishing a new software assurance program to vet applications before they are introduced into the production environment, Unfortunately. many Of the applications are provided only as compiled binaries. Which Of the following should the organization use to analyze these applications? (Select TWO).
A company Invested a total of $10 million lor a new storage solution Installed across live on-site datacenters. Fitly percent of the cost of this Investment was for solid-state storage. Due to the high rate of wear on this storage, the company Is estimating that 5% will need to be replaced per year. Which of the following is the ALE due to storage replacement?
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 company that all mobile devices be encrypted, commensurate with the full disk encryption scheme of assets, such as workstation, servers, and laptops. Which of the following will MOST likely be a limiting factor when selecting mobile device managers for the company?
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?
An HVAC contractor requested network connectivity permission to remotely support/troubleshoot equipment issues at a company location. Currently, the company does not have a process that allows vendors remote access to the corporate network Which of the following solutions represents the BEST course of action to allow the contractor access?
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?
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 penetration tester obtained root access on a Windows server and, according to the rules of engagement, is permitted to perform post-exploitation for persistence.
Which of the following techniques would BEST support this?
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).
Which of the following is required for an organization to meet the ISO 27018 standard?
A healthcare system recently suffered from a ransomware incident As a result the board of directors decided to hire a security consultant to improve existing network security. The security consultant found that the healthcare network was completely flat, had no privileged access limits and had open RDP access to servers with personal health information. As the consultant builds the remediation plan, which of the following solutions would BEST solve these challenges? (Select THREE).
The Chief Information Security Officer of a startup company has asked a security engineer to implement a software security program in an environment that previously had little oversight.
Which of the following testing methods would be BEST for the engineer to utilize in this situation?
An organization recently recovered from an attack that featured an adversary injecting Malicious logic into OS bootloaders on endpoint devices Therefore, the organization decided to require the use of TPM for measured boot and attestation, monitoring each component from the IJEFI through the full loading of OS components. of the following TPM structures enables this storage functionality?
A software development company is building a new mobile application for its social media platform. The company wants to gain its users' trust by re 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).
Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?
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).
An organization is developing a disaster recovery plan that requires data to be backed up and available at a moment’s notice.
Which of the following should the organization consider FIRST to address this requirement?
Users are reporting intermittent access issues with & new cloud application that was recently added to the network. Upon investigation, he scary 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 system administrator at a medical imaging company discovers protected health information (PHI) on a general-purpose file server. Which of the following steps should the administrator take NEXT?
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?
During a phishing exercise, a few privileged users ranked high on the failure list. The enterprise would like to ensure that privileged users have an extra security-monitoring control in place. Which of the following Is the MOST
likely solution?
Due to internal resource constraints, the management team has asked the principal security architect to recommend a solution that shifts partial responsibility for application-level controls to the cloud provider. In the shared responsibility model, which of the following levels of service meets this requirement?
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?
An application developer is including third-party background security fixes in an application. The fixes seem to resolve a currently identified security issue. However, when the application is released to the public, report come In that a previously vulnerability has returned. Which of the following should the developer integrate into the process to BEST prevent this type of behavior?
A developer implement the following code snippet.
Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?
Over the last 90 days, many storage services has been exposed in the cloud services environments, and the security team does not have the ability to see is creating these instance. Shadow IT is creating data services and instances faster than the small security team can keep up with them. The Chief information security Officer (CIASO) has asked the security officer (CISO) has asked the security lead architect to architect to recommend solutions to this problem.
Which of the following BEST addresses the problem best address the problem with the least amount of administrative effort?
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 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?
An attacker infiltrated the code base of a hardware manufacturer and inserted malware before the code was compiled. The malicious code is now running at the hardware level across a number of industries and sectors. Which of the following categories BEST describes this type of vendor risk?
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 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?
A security architect Is analyzing an old application that is not covered for maintenance anymore because the software company is no longer in business. Which of the following techniques should have been Implemented to prevent these types of risks?
In comparison with traditional on-premises infrastructure configurations, defining ACLs in a CSP relies on:
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?
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?
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 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 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 CSP, which wants to compete in the market, has been approaching companies in an attempt to gain business. The CSP is able to provide the same uptime as other CSPs at a markedly reduced cost. Which of the following would be the MOST significant business risk to a company that signs a contract with this CSP?
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?
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).
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 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?
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 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?
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is working with a new company and needs a legal “document to ensure all parties understand their roles during an assessment. Which of the following should the CISO have each party sign?
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?
A significant weather event caused all systems to fail over to the disaster recovery site successfully. However, successful data replication has not occurred in the last six months, which has resulted in
the service being unavailable. V•Vh1ch of the following would BEST prevent this scenario from happening again?
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?
A security engineer has been informed by the firewall team that a specific Windows workstation is part of a command-and-control network. The only information the security engineer is receiving is that
the traffic is occurring on a non-standard port (TCP 40322). Which of the following commands should the security engineer use FIRST to find the malicious process?
A network administrator receives a ticket regarding an error from a remote worker who is trying to reboot a laptop. The laptop has not yet loaded the operating system, and the user is unable to continue the boot process. The administrator is able to provide the user with a recovery PIN, and the user is able to reboot the system and access the device as needed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of the error?
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?
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 new, online file hosting service is being offered. The service has the following security requirements:
• Threats to customer data integrity and availability should be remediated first.
• The environment should be dynamic to match increasing customer demands.
• The solution should not interfere with customers" ability to access their data at anytime.
• Security analysts should focus on high-risk items.
Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?
A cloud security engineer is setting up a cloud-hosted WAF. The engineer needs to implement a solution to protect the multiple websites the organization hosts. The organization websites are:
* www.mycompany.org
* www.mycompany.com
* campus.mycompany.com
* wiki. mycompany.org
The solution must save costs and be able to protect all websites. Users should be able to notify the cloud security engineer of any on-path attacks. Which of the following is the BEST solution?
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?
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?
A security manager wants to transition the organization to a zero trust architecture. To meet this requirement, the security manager has instructed administrators to remove trusted zones, role-based access, and one-time authentication. Which of the following will need to be implemented to achieve this objective? (Select THREE).
Which of the following describes the system responsible for storing private encryption/decryption files with a third party to ensure these files are stored safely?
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).
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?
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 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.)