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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 company's Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent the company from being the target of ransomware. The company's IT assets need to be protected. Which of the following are the most secure options to address these concerns? (Select three).
A pharmaceutical company uses a cloud provider to host thousands of independent resources in object storage. The company needs a practical and effective means of discovering data, monitoring changes, and identifying suspicious activity. Which of the following would best meet these requirements?
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 has been the target of LDAP injections, as well as brute-force, whaling, and spear-phishing attacks. The company is concerned about ensuring continued system access. The company has already implemented a SSO system with strong passwords. Which of the following additional controls should the company deploy?
During a software assurance assessment, an engineer notices the source code contains multiple instances of strcpy. which does not verify the buffer length. Which of the following solutions should be integrated into the SDLC process to reduce future risks?
A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a vulnerability scan from an organization's internet-facing web services:
Which of the following indicates a susceptibility whereby an attacker can take advantage of the trust relationship between the client and the server?
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.
The management team at a company with a large, aging server environment is conducting a server risk assessment in order to create a replacement strategy. The replacement strategy will be based upon the likelihood a server will fail, regardless of the criticality of the application running on a particular server. Which of the following should be used to prioritize the server replacements?
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).
A security administrator is setting up a virtualization solution that needs to run services from a single host. Each service should be the only one running in its environment. Each environment needs to have its own operating system as a base but share the kernel version and properties of the running host. Which of the following technologies would best meet these requirements?
A 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 security analyst has been provided the following partial Snort IDS rule to review and add into the company's Snort IDS to identify a CVE:
Which of the following should the analyst recommend to mitigate this type of vulnerability?
A 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 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?
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?
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) received a call from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) about a data breach from the SOC lead around 9:00 a.m. At 10:00 a.m. The CEO informs the CISO that a breach of the firm is being reported on national news. Upon investigation, it is determined that a network administrator has reached out to a vendor prior to the breach for information on a security patch that failed to be installed. Which of the following should the CISO do to prevent this from happening again?
A security administrator needs to implement a security solution that will
• Limit the attack surface in case of an incident
• Improve access control for external and internal network security.
• Improve performance with less congestion on network traffic
Which of the following should the security administrator do?
A mobile application developer is creating a global, highly scalable, secure chat application. The developer would like to ensure the application is not susceptible to on-path attacks while the user is traveling in potentially hostile regions. Which of the following would BEST achieve that goal?
A web service provider has just taken on a very large contract that comes with requirements that are currently not being implemented in order to meet contractual requirements, the company must achieve the following thresholds
• 99 99% uptime
• Load time in 3 seconds
• Response time = <1 0 seconds
Starting with the computing environment, which of the following should a security engineer recommend to BEST meet the requirements? (Select THREE)
A company reviews the regulatory requirements associated with a new product, and then company management elects to cancel production. Which of the following risk strategies is the company using in this scenario?
A security technician is trying to connect a remote site to the central office over a site-to-site VPN. The technician has verified the source and destination IP addresses are correct, but the technician is unable to get the remote site to connect. The following error message keeps repeating:
"An error has occurred during Phase 1 handshake. Deleting keys and retrying..."
Which of the following is most likely the reason the connection is failing?
A SIEM generated an alert after a third-party database administrator, who had recently been granted temporary access to the repository, accessed business-sensitive content in the database. The SIEM had generated similar alerts before this incident. Which of the following best explains the cause of the alert?
A security engineer is performing a threat modeling procedure against a machine learning system that correlates analytic information for decision support. Which of the following threat statements most likely applies to this type of system?
PKI can be used to support security requirements in the change management process. Which of the following capabilities does PKI provide for messages?
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?
The Chief information Officer (CIO) wants to implement enterprise mobility throughout the organization. The goal is to allow employees access to company resources. However the CIO wants the ability to enforce configuration settings, manage data, and manage both company-owned and personal devices. Which of the following should the CIO implement to achieve this goal?
A large telecommunications equipment manufacturer needs to evaluate the strengths of security controls in a new telephone network supporting first responders. Which of the following techniques would the company use to evaluate data confidentiality controls?
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?
A company that provides services to clients who work with highly sensitive data would like to provide assurance that the data’s confidentiality is maintained in a dynamic, low-risk environment. Which of the following would best achieve this goal? (Select two).
A software developer has been tasked with creating a unique threat detection mechanism that is based on machine learning. The information system for which the tool is being developed is on a rapid CI/CD pipeline, and the tool developer is considered a supplier to the process. Which of the following presents the most risk to the development life cycle and lo the ability to deliver the security tool on time?
The Chief information Officer (CIO) wants to establish a non-banding agreement with a third party that outlines the objectives of the mutual arrangement dealing with data transfers between both organizations before establishing a format partnership. Which of the follow would MOST likely be used?
Based on PCI DSS v3.4, One Particular database field can store data, but the data must be unreadable. which of the following data objects meets this requirement?
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 security administrator has been provided with three separate certificates and is trying to organize them into a single chain of trust to deploy on a website. Given the following certificate properties:
Which of the following are true about the PKI hierarchy? (Select two).
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?
Which of the following is the primary reason that a risk practitioner determines the security boundary prior to conducting a risk assessment?
A pharmaceutical company recently experienced a security breach within its customer-facing web portal. The attackers performed a SQL injection attack and exported tables from the company’s managed database, exposing customer information.
The company hosts the application with a CSP utilizing the IaaS model. Which of the following parties is ultimately responsible for the breach?
Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?
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 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?
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?
A recent data breach revealed that a company has a number of files containing customer data across its storage environment. These files are individualized for each employee and are used in tracking various customer orders, inquiries, and issues. The files are not encrypted and can be accessed by anyone. The senior management team would like to address these issues without interrupting existing processes.
Which of the following should a security architect recommend?
A financial services company wants to migrate its email services from on-premises servers to a cloud-based email solution. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) must brief board of directors on the potential security concerns related to this migration. The board is concerned about the following.
* Transactions being required by unauthorized individual
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attacker using email to distribute malware and ransom ware.
* Exfiltration of sensitivity company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide an6-malware, reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the board’s concerns for this email migration?
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?
A security operations center analyst is investigating anomalous activity between a database server and an unknown external IP address and gathered the following data:
• dbadmin last logged in at 7:30 a.m. and logged out at 8:05 a.m.
• A persistent TCP/6667 connection to the external address was established at 7:55 a.m. The connection is still active.
• Other than bytes transferred to keep the connection alive, only a few kilobytes of data transfer every hour since the start of the connection.
• A sample outbound request payload from PCAP showed the ASCII content: "JOIN #community".
Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?
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?
An analyst execute a vulnerability scan against an internet-facing DNS server and receives the following report:
Which of the following tools should the analyst use FIRST to validate the most critical vulnerability?
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 company is repeatedly being breached by hackers who valid credentials. The company’s Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has installed multiple controls for authenticating users, including biometric and token-based factors. Each successive control has increased overhead and complexity but has failed to stop further breaches. An external consultant is evaluating the process currently in place to support the authentication controls. Which of the following recommendation would MOST likely reduce the risk of unauthorized access?
Which of the following technologies allows CSPs to add encryption across multiple data storages?
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that a company's current data disposal procedures could result in data remanence. The company uses only SSDs. Which of the following would be the MOST secure way to dispose of the SSDs given the CISO's concern?
Which of the following agreements includes no penalties and can be signed by two entities that are working together toward the same goal?
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 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 security analyst observes the following while looking through network traffic in a company's cloud log:
Which of the following steps should the security analyst take FIRST?
A security engineer needs 10 implement a CASB to secure employee user web traffic. A Key requirement is mat relevant event data must be collected from existing on-premises infrastructure components and consumed by me CASB to expand traffic visibility. The solution must be nighty resilient to network outages. Which of the following architectural components would BEST meet these requirements?
A company is looking for a solution to hide data stored in databases. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Be efficient at protecting the production environment
Not require any change to the application
Act at the presentation layer
Which of the following techniques should be used?
A business wants to migrate its workloads from an exclusively on-premises IT infrastructure to the cloud but cannot implement all the required controls. Which of the following BEST describes the risk associated with this implementation?
A security consultant needs to protect a network of electrical relays that are used for monitoring and controlling the energy used in a manufacturing facility.
Which of the following systems should the consultant review before making a recommendation?
An organization requires a legacy system to incorporate reference data into a new system. The organization anticipates the legacy system will remain in operation for the next 18 to 24 months. Additionally, the legacy system has multiple critical vulnerabilities with no patches available to resolve them. Which of the following is the BEST design option to optimize security?
Which of the following is the MOST important cloud-specific risk from the CSP’s viewpoint?
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 consultant needs to set up wireless security for a small office that does not have Active Directory. Despite the lack of central account management, the office manager wants to ensure a high level of defense to prevent brute-force attacks against wireless authentication.
Which of the following technologies would BEST meet this need?
A security administrator has been tasked with hardening a domain controller against lateral movement attacks. Below is an output of running services:
Which of the following configuration changes must be made to complete this task?
Which of the following protocols is a low power, low data rate that allows for the creation of PAN networks?
You are a security analyst tasked with interpreting an Nmap scan output from company’s privileged network.
The company’s hardening guidelines indicate the following:
There should be one primary server or service per device.
Only default ports should be used.
Non-secure protocols should be disabled.
INSTRUCTIONS
Using the Nmap output, identify the devices on the network and their roles, and any open ports that should be closed.
For each device found by Nmap, add a device entry to the Devices Discovered list, with the following information:
The IP address of the device
The primary server or service of the device (Note that each IP should by associated with one service/port only)
The protocol(s) that should be disabled based on the hardening guidelines (Note that multiple ports may need to be closed to comply with the hardening guidelines)
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please click the Reset All button.
A systems engineer needs to develop a solution that uses digital certificates to allow authentication to laptops. Which of the following authenticator types would be most appropriate for the engineer to include in the design?
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 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).
A company’s product site recently had failed API calls, resulting in customers being unable to check out and purchase products. This type of failure could lead to the loss of customers and damage to the company’s reputation in the market.
Which of the following should the company implement to address the risk of system unavailability?
A 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?
A product development team has submitted code snippets for review prior to release.
INSTRUCTIONS
Analyze the code snippets, and then select one vulnerability, and one fix for each code snippet.
Code Snippet 1
Code Snippet 2
Vulnerability 1:
SQL injection
Cross-site request forgery
Server-side request forgery
Indirect object reference
Cross-site scripting
Fix 1:
Perform input sanitization of the userid field.
Perform output encoding of queryResponse,
Ensure usex:ia belongs to logged-in user.
Inspect URLS and disallow arbitrary requests.
Implement anti-forgery tokens.
Vulnerability 2
1) Denial of service
2) Command injection
3) SQL injection
4) Authorization bypass
5) Credentials passed via GET
Fix 2
A) Implement prepared statements and bind
variables.
B) Remove the serve_forever instruction.
C) Prevent the "authenticated" value from being overridden by a GET parameter.
D) HTTP POST should be used for sensitive parameters.
E) Perform input sanitization of the userid field.
A disaster recovery team learned of several mistakes that were made during the last disaster recovery parallel test. Computational resources ran out at 70% of restoration of critical services.
Which of the following should be modified to prevent the issue from reoccurring?
A 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?
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?
Due to adverse events, a medium-sized corporation suffered a major operational disruption that caused its servers to crash and experience a major power outage. Which of the following should be created to prevent this type of issue in the future?
A health company has reached the physical and computing capabilities in its datacenter, but the computing demand continues to increase. The infrastructure is fully virtualized and runs custom and commercial healthcare application that process sensitive health and payment information. Which of the following should the company implement to ensure it can meet the computing demand while complying with healthcare standard for virtualization and cloud computing?
A security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will meet the following requirements:
Identify sensitive data in the provider’s network
Maintain compliance with company and regulatory guidelines
Detect and respond to insider threats, privileged user threats, and compromised accounts
Enforce datacentric security, such as encryption, tokenization, and access control
Which of the following solutions should the security engineer recommend to address these requirements?
A company 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?
An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports.
Which of the following historian server locations will allow the business to get the required reports in an ОТ and IT environment?
A company 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 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?
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 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?
A developer wants to maintain integrity to each module of a program and ensure the code cannot be altered by malicious users.
Which of the following would be BEST for the developer to perform? (Choose two.)
A 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?
Due to locality and budget constraints, an organization’s satellite office has a lower bandwidth allocation than other offices in the organization. As a result, the local security infrastructure staff is assessing architectural options that will help preserve network bandwidth and increase speed to both internal and external resources while not sacrificing threat visibility.
Which of the following would be the BEST option to implement?
A security analyst receives an alert from the SIEM regarding unusual activity on an authorized public SSH jump server. To further investigate, the analyst pulls the event logs directly from /var/log/auth.log: graphic.ssh_auth_log.
Which of the following actions would BEST address the potential risks by the activity in the logs?
After a security incident, a network security engineer discovers that a portion of the company’s sensitive external traffic has been redirected through a secondary ISP that is not normally used.
Which of the following would BEST secure the routes while allowing the network to function in the event of a single provider failure?
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.
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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 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 reviewing the following output:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?
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 security analyst is reviewing network connectivity on a Linux workstation and examining the active TCP connections using the command line.
Which of the following commands would be the BEST to run to view only active Internet connections?
A company is implementing SSL inspection. During the next six months, multiple web applications that will be separated out with subdomains will be deployed.
Which of the following will allow the inspection of the data without multiple certificate deployments?
A company publishes several APIs for customers and is required to use keys to segregate customer data sets.
Which of the following would be BEST to use to store customer keys?
A 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?
A security analyst is concerned that a malicious piece of code was downloaded on a Linux system. After some research, the analyst determines that the suspected piece of code is performing a lot of input/output (I/O) on the disk drive.
Based on the output above, from which of the following process IDs can the analyst begin an investigation?
A new web server must comply with new secure-by-design principles and PCI DSS. This includes mitigating the risk of an on-path attack. A security analyst is reviewing the following web server configuration:
Which of the following ciphers should the security analyst remove to support the business requirements?
A security analyst is performing a vulnerability assessment on behalf of a client. The analyst must define what constitutes a risk to the organization.
Which of the following should be the analyst’s FIRST action?
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?
Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?
A security engineer needs to implement a solution to increase the security posture of user endpoints by providing more visibility and control over local administrator accounts. The endpoint security team is overwhelmed with alerts and wants a solution that has minimal operational burdens. Additionally, the solution must maintain a positive user experience after implementation.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet these objectives?
A high-severity vulnerability was found on a web application and introduced to the enterprise. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to utilize an open-source library to view privileged user information. The enterprise is unwilling to accept the risk, but the developers cannot fix the issue right away.
Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk to an acceptable level until the issue can be fixed?
An organization’s hunt team thinks a persistent threats exists and already has a foothold in the enterprise network.
Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the hunt team to use to entice the adversary to uncover malicious activity?
A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?
A security engineer was auditing an organization’s current software development practice and discovered that multiple open-source libraries were Integrated into the organization’s software. The organization currently performs SAST and DAST on the software it develops.
Which of the following should the organization incorporate into the SDLC to ensure the security of the open-source libraries?
A 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?
A company is migrating from company-owned phones to a BYOD strategy for mobile devices. The pilot program will start with the executive management team and be rolled out to the rest of the staff in phases. The company’s Chief Financial Officer loses a phone multiple times a year.
Which of the following will MOST likely secure the data on the lost device?
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?
Device event logs sources from MDM software as follows:
Which of the following security concerns and response actions would BEST address the risks posed by the device in the logs?
During a remodel, a company’s computer equipment was moved to a secure storage room with cameras positioned on both sides of the door. The door is locked using a card reader issued by the security team, and only the security team and department managers have access to the room. The company wants to be able to identify any unauthorized individuals who enter the storage room by following an authorized employee.
Which of the following processes would BEST satisfy this requirement?
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 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?
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?
A network administrator for a completely air-gapped and closed system has noticed that anomalous external files have been uploaded to one of the critical servers. The administrator has reviewed logs
in the SIEM that were collected from security appliances, network infrastructure devices, and endpoints. Which of the following processes, if executed, would be MOST likely to expose an attacker?
During a recent security incident investigation, a security analyst mistakenly turned off the infected machine prior to consulting with a forensic analyst. upon rebooting the machine, a malicious script that
was running as a background process was no longer present. As a result, potentially useful evidence was lost. Which of the following should the security analyst have followed?
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?
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 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?
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 a cloud environment, the provider offers relief to an organization's teams by sharing in many of the operational duties. In a shared responsibility model, which of the following responsibilities belongs to the provider in a Paas implementation?
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?
Company A acquired Company B. During an initial assessment, the companies discover they are using the same SSO system. To help users with the transition, Company A is requiring the following:
• Before the merger is complete, users from both companies should use a single set of usernames and passwords.
• Users in the same departments should have the same set of rights and privileges, but they should have different sets of rights and privileges if they have different IPs.
• Users from Company B should be able to access Company A's available resources.
Which of the following are the BEST solutions? (Select TWO).
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 engineer performed an assessment on a recently deployed web application. The engineer was able to exfiltration a company report by visiting the following URL:
www.intranet.abc.com/get-files.jsp?file=report.pdf
Which of the following mitigation techniques would be BEST for the security engineer to recommend?
A 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 global organization's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been asked to analyze the risks involved in a plan to move the organization's current MPLS-based WAN network to use commodity Internet and SD-WAN hardware. The SD-WAN provider is currently highly regarded but Is a regional provider. Which of the following is MOST likely identified as a potential risk by the CISO?
A 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 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?
A company created an external, PHP-based web application for its customers. A security researcher reports that the application has the Heartbleed vulnerability. Which of the following would BEST resolve and mitigate the issue? (Select TWO).
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 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?
An analyst has prepared several possible solutions to a successful attack on the company. The solutions need to be implemented with the LEAST amount of downtime. Which of the following should the analyst perform?
A security 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).
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).
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 architectural firm is working with its security team to ensure that any draft images that are leaked to the public can be traced back to a specific external party. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?
A 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?
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?
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 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 organization is moving its intellectual property data from on premises to a CSP and wants to secure the data from theft. Which of the following can be used to mitigate this risk?
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?
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).
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 mobile administrator is reviewing the following mobile device DHCP logs to ensure the proper mobile settings are applied to managed devices:
Which of the following mobile configuration settings is the mobile administrator verifying?
A systems administrator at a web-hosting provider has been tasked with renewing the public certificates of all customer sites. Which of the following would BEST support multiple domain names while minimizing the amount of certificates needed?
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?
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 company wants to prevent a partner company from denying agreement to a transaction. Which of the following is the best solution for the company?
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 runs a vulnerability scan on a network administrator's workstation The network administrator has direct administrative access to the company's SSO web portal The vulnerability scan uncovers cntical vulnerabilities with equally high CVSS scores for the user's browser, OS, email client and an offline password manager Which of the following should the security analyst patch FIRST?
A security 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 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 software company is developing an application in which data must be encrypted with a cipher that requires the following:
* Initialization vector
* Low latency
* Suitable for streaming
Which of the following ciphers should the company use?
A security 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?
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 security administrator is trying to securely provide public access to specific data from a web application. Clients who want to access the application will be required to:
• Only allow the POST and GET options.
• Transmit all data secured with TLS 1.2 or greater.
• Use specific URLs to access each type of data that is requested.
• Authenticate with a bearer token.
Which of the following should the security administrator recommend to meet these requirements?
A hospital has fallen behind with patching known vulnerabilities due to concerns that patches may cause disruptions in the availability of data and impact patient care. The hospital does not have a tracking solution in place to audit whether systems have been updated or to track the length of time between notification of the weakness and patch completion Since tracking is not in place the hospital lacks accountability with regard to who is responsible for these activities and the timeline of patching efforts. Which of the following should the hospital do first to mitigate this risk?
A security architect is working with a new customer to find a vulnerability assessment solution that meets the following requirements:
• Fast scanning
• The least false positives possible
• Signature-based
• A low impact on servers when performing a scan
In addition, the customer has several screened subnets, VLANs, and branch offices. Which of the following will best meet the customer's needs?
TESTED 21 Jan 2025
