A security architect updated the security policy to require a proper way to verify that packets received between two parties have not been tampered with and the connection remains private. Which of the following cryptographic techniques can be used to ensure the security policy is being enforced properly?
Which of the following indicates when a company might not be viable after a disaster?
Which of the following testing plans is used to discuss disaster recovery scenarios with representatives from multiple departments within an incident response team but without taking any invasive actions?
A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badgeto access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?
A third-party organization has implemented a system that allows it to analyze customers' data and deliver analysis results without being able to see the raw data. Which of the following is the organization implementing?
An organization is looking to establish more robust security measures by implementing PKI. Which of the following should the security analyst implement when considering mutual authentication?
A security engineer has been informed by the firewall team that a specific Windows workstation is part of a command-and-control network. The only information the security engineer is receiving is that
the traffic is occurring on a non-standard port (TCP 40322). Which of the following commands should the security engineer use FIRST to find the malicious process?
A 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 consultant needs access to a customer's cloud environment. The customer wants to enforce the following engagement requirements:
• All customer data must remain under the control of the customer at all times.
• Third-party access to the customer environment must be controlled by the customer.
• Authentication credentials and access control must be under the customer's control.
Which of the following should the consultant do to ensure all customer requirements are satisfied when accessing the cloud environment?
A security analyst is reviewing SIEM events and is uncertain how to handle a particular event. The file is reviewed with the security vendor who is aware that this type of file routinely triggers this alert.
Based on this information, the security analyst acknowledges this alert Which of the following event classifications is MOST likely the reason for this action?
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?
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 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 hospitality company experienced a data breach that included customer Pll. The hacker used social engineering to convince an employee to grant a third-party application access to some company documents within a cloud file storage service. Which of the following is the BEST solution to help prevent this type of attack in the future?
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?
A company is deploying multiple VPNs to support supplier connections into its extranet applications. The network security standard requires:
• All remote devices to have up-to-date antivirus
• An up-to-date and patched OS
Which of the following technologies should the company deploy to meet its security objectives? (Select TWO)_
A new, online file hosting service is being offered. The service has the following security requirements:
• Threats to customer data integrity and availability should be remediated first.
• The environment should be dynamic to match increasing customer demands.
• The solution should not interfere with customers" ability to access their data at anytime.
• Security analysts should focus on high-risk items.
Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?
A security consultant has been asked to identify a simple, secure solution for a small business with a single access point. The solution should have a single SSID and no guest access. The customer
facility is located in a crowded area of town, so there is a high likelihood that several people will come into range every day. The customer has asked that the solution require low administrative overhead
and be resistant to offline password attacks. Which of the following should the security consultant recommend?
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 systems administrator was given the following IOC to detect the presence of a malicious piece of software communicating with its command-and-control server:
post /malicious. php
User-Agent: Malicious Tool V 1.0
Host: www.rcalicious.com
The IOC documentation suggests the URL is the only part that could change. Which of the following regular expressions would allow the systems administrator to determine if any of the company hosts are compromised, while reducing false positives?
A 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).
To save time, a company that is developing a new VPN solution has decided to use the OpenSSL library within Its proprietary software. Which of the following should the company consider to maximize risk reduction from vulnerabilities introduced by OpenSSL?
An engineering team has deployed a new VPN service that requires client certificates to be used in order to successfully connect. On iOS devices, however, the following error occurs after importing the .p12 certificate file:
mbedTLS: ca certificate undefined
Which of the following is the root cause of this issue?
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 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?
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) requested the security team implement technical controls that meet the following requirements:
* Monitors traffic to and from both local NAS and cloud-based file repositories
* Prevents on-site staff who are accessing sensitive customer Pll documents on file repositories from accidentally or deliberately sharing sensitive documents on personal Saa$S solutions
* Uses document attributes to reduce false positives
* Is agentless and not installed on staff desktops or laptops
Which of the following when installed and configured would BEST meet the CSO's requirements? (Select TWO).
An organization is in frequent litigation and has a large number of legal holds. Which of the following types of functionality should the organization's new email system provide?
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 company wants to implement a new website that will be accessible via browsers with no mobile applications available. The new website will allow customers to submit sensitive medical information securely and receive online medical advice. The company already has multiple other websites where it provides various public health data and information. The new website must implement the following:
• The highest form Of web identity validation
• Encryption of all web transactions
• The strongest encryption in-transit
• Logical separation based on data sensitivity
Other things that should be considered include:
• The company operates multiple other websites that use encryption.
• The company wants to minimize total expenditure.
• The company wants to minimize complexity
Which of the following should the company implement on its new website? (Select TWO).
A security consultant has been asked to recommend a secure network design that would:
• Permit an existing OPC server to communicate with a new Modbus server that is controlling electrical relays.
• Limit operational disruptions.
Due to the limitations within the Modbus protocol, which of the following configurations should the security engineer recommend as part of the solution?
A company is on a deadline to roll out an entire CRM platform to all users at one time. However, the company is behind schedule due to reliance on third-party vendors. Which of the following development approaches will allow the company to begin releases but also continue testing and development for future releases?
A security architect recommends replacing the company’s monolithic software application with a containerized solution. Historically, secrets have been stored in the application's configuration files. Which of the following changes should the security architect make in the new system?
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).
The CI/CD pipeline requires code to have close to zero defects and zero vulnerabilities. The current process for any code releases into production uses two-week Agile sprints. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirement?
A software development company is implementing a SaaS-based password vault for customers to use. The requirements for the password vault include:
Vault encryption using a variable block and key size
Resistance to brute-force attacks
Which of the following should be implemented to meet these requirements? (Select two.)
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?
Which of the following is the reason why security engineers often cannot upgrade the security of embedded facility automation systems?
A company wants to use a process to embed a sign of ownership covertly inside a proprietary document without adding any identifying attributes. Which of the following would be best to use as part of the process to support copyright protections of the document?
A company is developing a new service product offering that will involve the storage of personal health information. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is researching the relevant compliance regulations. Which of the following best describes the CISO's action?
A security engineer is creating a single CSR for the following web server hostnames:
• wwwint internal
• www company com
• home.internal
• www internal
Which of the following would meet the requirement?
A security analyst reviews network logs and notices a large number of domain name queries originating from an internal server for an unknown domain, similar to the following:
2736287327321782.hgQ43jsi23-y.com
0357320932922C91.hgQ43jsu23Ty.com
4042301801399103.hgQ43jsu23Ly.com
Which of the following should the analyst do next?
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?
Which of the following best explain why organizations prefer to utilize code that is digitally signed? (Select two).
A company recently migrated its critical web application to a cloud provider's environment. As part of the company's risk management program, the company intends to conduct an external penetration test. According to the scope of work and the rules of engagement, the penetrationtester will validate the web application's security and check for opportunities to expose sensitive company information in the newly migrated cloud environment. Which of the following should be the first consideration prior to engaging in the test?
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?
A security engineer is reviewing event logs because an employee successfully connected a personal Windows laptop to the corporate network, which is against company policy. Company policy allows all Windows 10 and 11 laptops to connect to the system as long as the MDM agent installed by IT is running. Only compliant devices can connect, and the logic in the system to evaluate compliant laptops is as follows:
Which of the following most likely occurred when the employee connected a personally owned Windows laptop and was allowed on the network?
After the latest risk assessment, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) decides to meet with the development and security teams to find a way to reduce the security task workload The CISO would like to:
* Have a solution that uses API to communicate with other security tools
* Use the latest technology possible
* Have the highest controls possible on the solution
Which of following is the best option to meet these requirements?
A security analyst received a report that a suspicious flash drive was picked up in the office's waiting area, located beyond the secured door. The analyst investigated the drive and found malware designed to harvest and transmit credentials. Security cameras in the area where the flash drive was discovered showed a vendor representative dropping the drive. Which of the following should the analyst recommend as an additional way to identify anyone who enters the building, in the event the camera system fails?
Which of the following technologies would need to be in an unmanaged state to perform forensic analysis on a laptop with an unknown encryption key?
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 analyst is designing a touch screen device so users can gain entry into a locked room by touching buttons numbered zero through nine in a specific numerical sequence. The analyst designs thekeypad so that the numbers are randomly presented to the user each time the device is used. Which of the following best describes the design trade-offs? (Select two.)
A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a vulnerability scan of an organization's internet-facing web services:
•Line 06: Hostname sent via SNI does not match certificate.
•Line 10: Certificate not validated by OCSP.
•Line 13: Weak SHA-1 signature algorithm detected.
•Line 17: TLS 1.2 cipher suite negotiated.
•Line 18: SSL session not using forward secrecy.
Which of the following indicates a susceptibility whereby an attacker can take advantage of the trust relationship between the client and the server?
A new requirement for legislators has forced a government security team to develop a validation process to verify the integrity of a downloaded file and the sender of the file Which of the following is the BEST way for the security team to comply with this requirement?
A security analyst is examining a former employee's laptop for suspected evidence of suspicious activity. The analyst usesddduring the investigation. Which of the following best explains why the analyst is using this tool?
A systems administrator is preparing to run avulnerability scanon a set of information systems in the organization. The systems administrator wants to ensure that the targeted systems produceaccurate information, especially regardingconfiguration settings. Which of the following scan types will provide the systems administrator with themost accurate information?
A security analyst is participating in a risk assessment and is helping to calculate the exposure factor associated with various systems and processes within the organization. Which of the following resources would be most useful to calculate the exposure factor in this scenario?
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 architect is implementing a SOAR solution in an organization's cloud production environment to support detection capabilities. Which of the following will be the most likely benefit?
A company hired a third party to develop software as part of its strategy to be quicker to market. The company’s policy outlines the following requirements:
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The credentials used to publish production software to the container registry should be stored in a secure location.
Access should be restricted to the pipeline service account, without the ability for the third-party developer to read the credentials directly.
Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation for storing and monitoring access to these shared credentials?
A senior cybersecurity engineer is solving a digital certificate issue in which the CA denied certificate issuance due to failed subject identity validation. At which of the following steps within the PKI enrollment process would the denial have occurred?
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?
While investigating a security event, an analyst finds evidence that a user opened an email attachment from an unknown source. Shortly after the user opened the attachment, a group of servers experienced a large amount of network and resource activity. Upon investigating the servers, the analyst discovers the servers were encrypted by ransomware that is demanding payment within 48 hours or all data will be destroyed. The company has no response plans for ransomware.
Which of the following is the NEXT step the analyst should take after reporting the incident to the management team?
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 developer is creating a new mobile application for a company. The application usesREST APIandTLS 1.2to communicate securely with the external back-end server. Due to this configuration, the company is concerned aboutHTTPS interception attacks. Which of the following would be thebestsolution against this type of attack?
An organization has deployed a cloud-based application that provides virtual event services globally to clients. During a typical event, thousands of users access various entry pages within a short period of time. The entry pages include sponsor-related content that is relatively static and is pulled from a database. When the first major event occurs, users report poor response time onthe entry pages. Which of the following features is the most appropriate for the company to implement?
An organization recently started processing, transmitting, and storing its customers’ credit card information. Within a week of doing so, the organization suffered a massive breach that resulted in the exposure of the customers’ information.
Which of the following provides the BEST guidance for protecting such information while it is at rest and in transit?
A company’s claims processed department has a mobile workforce that receives a large number of email submissions from personal email addresses. An employees recently received an email that approved to be claim form, but it installed malicious software on the employee’s laptop when was opened.
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?
An organization is implementing a new identity and access management architecture with the following objectives:
Supporting MFA against on-premises infrastructure
Improving the user experience by integrating with SaaS applications
Applying risk-based policies based on location
Performing just-in-time provisioning
Which of the following authentication protocols should the organization implement to support these requirements?
A security engineer has been asked to close all non-secure connections from the corporate network. The engineer is attempting to understand why the corporate UTM will not allow users to download email via IMAPS. The engineer formulates a theory and begins testing by creating the firewall ID 58, and users are able to download emails correctly by using IMAP instead. The network comprises three VLANs:
The security engineer looks at the UTM firewall rules and finds the following:
Which of the following should the security engineer do to ensure IMAPS functions properly on the corporate user network?
A 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 network architect is designing a new SD-WAN architecture to connect all local sites to a central hub site. The hub is then responsible for redirecting traffic to public cloud and datacenter applications. The SD-WAN routers are managed through a SaaS, and the same security policy is applied to staff whether working in the office or at a remote location. The main requirements are the following:
1. The network supports core applications that have 99.99% uptime.
2. Configuration updates to the SD-WAN routers can only be initiated from the management service.
3. Documents downloaded from websites must be scanned for malware.
Which of the following solutions should the network architect implement to meet the requirements?
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 security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times.
Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?
A 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 shipping company that is trying to eliminate entire classes of threats is developing an SELinux policy to ensure its custom Android devices are used exclusively for package tracking.
After compiling and implementing the policy, in which of the following modes must the company ensure the devices are configured to run?
A 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 high-severity vulnerability was found on a web application and introduced to the enterprise. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to utilize an open-source library to view privileged user information. The enterprise is unwilling to accept the risk, but the developers cannot fix the issue right away.
Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk to an acceptable level until the issue can be fixed?
A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?
An 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 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 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?
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 company is looking to fortify its cybersecurity defenses and is focusing on its network infrastructure. The solution cannot affect the availability of the company’s services to ensure false positives do not drop legitimate traffic.
Which of the following would satisfy the requirement?
A company processes data subject to NDAs with partners that define the processing and storage constraints for the covered data. The agreements currently do not permit moving the covered data to the cloud, and the company would like to renegotiate the terms of the agreements.
Which of the following would MOST likely help the company gain consensus to move the data to the cloud?
A 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 CRM company leverages a CSP PaaS service to host and publish its SaaS product. Recently, a large customer requested that all infrastructure components must meet strict regulatory requirements, including configuration management, patch management, and life-cycle management. Which of the following organizations is responsible for ensuring those regulatory requirements are met?
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?
An organization developed a containerized application. The organization wants to run the application in the cloud and automatically scale it based on demand. The security operations team would like to use container orchestration but does not want to assume patching responsibilities. Which of the following service models best meets these requirements?
The primary advantage of an organization creating and maintaining a vendor risk registry is to:
A security engineer is concerned about the threat of side-channel attacks The company experienced a past attack that degraded parts of a SCADA system, causing a fluctuation to 20,000rpm from its normal operating range As a result, the part deteriorated more quickly than the mean time to failure A further investigation revealed the attacker was able to determine the acceptable rpm range, and the malware would then fluctuate the rpm until the pan failed Which of the following solutions would be best to prevent a side-channel attack in the future?
Which of the following is the primary reason that a risk practitioner determines the security boundary prior to conducting a risk assessment?
An organization wants to perform a scan of all its systems against best practice security configurations.
Which of the following SCAP standards, when combined, will enable the organization to view each of the configuration checks in a machine-readable checklist format for fill automation? (Choose two.)
Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?
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 company plans to build an entirely remote workforce that utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure. The Chief Information Security Officer asks the security engineer to design connectivity to meet the following requirements:
Only users with corporate-owned devices can directly access servers hosted by the cloud provider.
The company can control what SaaS applications each individual user can access.
User browser activity can be monitored.
Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?
An e-commerce company is running a web server on premises, and the resource utilization is usually less than 30%. During the last two holiday seasons, the server experienced performance issues because of too many connections, and several customers were not able to finalize purchase orders. The company is looking to change the server configuration to avoid this kind of performance issue.
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?
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?
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?
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Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?
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 penetration tester discovers a condition that causes unexpected behavior in a web application. This results in the dump of the interpreter's debugging information, which includes the interpreter's version, full path of binary files, and the user ID running the process. Which of the following actions would best mitigate this risk?
Which of the following provides the best solution for organizations that want to securely back up the MFA seeds for its employees in a central, offline location with minimal
management overhead?
A company is in the process of refreshing its entire infrastructure The company has a business-critical process running on an old 2008 Windows server If this server fails, the company would lose millions of dollars in revenue. Which of the following actions should the company should take?
A company is moving most of its customer-facing production systems to the cloud-facing production systems to the cloud. IaaS is the service model being used. The Chief Executive Officer is concerned about the type of encryption available and requires the solution must have the highest level of security.
Which of the following encryption methods should the cloud security engineer select during the implementation phase?
A 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?
A university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field and leaves the institution vulnerable.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?
An enterprise is deploying APIs that utilize a private key and a public key to ensure the connection string is protected. To connect to the API, customers must use the private key.
Which of the following would BEST secure the REST API connection to the database while preventing the use of a hard-coded string in the request string?
A security team is concerned with attacks that are taking advantage of return-oriented programming against the company's public-facing applications. Which of the following should the company implement on the public-facing servers?
During the development process, the team identifies major components that need to be rewritten. As a result, the company hires a security consultant to help address major process issues. Which of the following should the consultant recommend to best prevent these issues from reoccurring in the future?
A SOC analyst received an alert about a potential compromise and is reviewing the following SIEM logs:
Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the SOC analyst to recommend?
A customer requires secure communication of subscribed web services at all times, but the company currently signs its own certificate requests to an internal CA. Which of the following approaches will best meet the customer's requirements?
A company's software developers have indicated that the security team takes too long to perform application security tasks. A security analyst plans to improve the situation by implementing security into the SDLC. The developers have the following requirements:
1. The solution must be able to initiate SQL injection and reflected XSS attacks.
2. The solution must ensure the application is not susceptible to memory leaks.
Which of the following should be implemented to meet these requirements? (Select two).
A bank hired a security architect to improve its security measures against the latest threats The solution must meet the following requirements
• Recognize and block fake websites
• Decrypt and scan encrypted traffic on standard and non-standard ports
• Use multiple engines for detection and prevention
• Have central reporting
Which of the following is the BEST solution the security architect can propose?
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?
Which of the following are risks associated with vendor lock-in? (Choose two.)
A security analyst runs a vulnerability scan on a network administrator's workstation The network administrator has direct administrative access to the company's SSO web portal The vulnerability scan uncovers cntical vulnerabilities with equally high CVSS scores for the user's browser, OS, email client and an offline password manager Which of the following should the security analyst patch FIRST?
A technician is reviewing the logs and notices a large number of files were transferred to remote sites over the course of three months. This activity then stopped. The files were transferred via TLS-protected HTTP sessions from systems that do not send traffic to those sites.
The technician will define this threat as:
A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident.
Which of the following would be BEST to proceed with the transformation?
An analyst needs to evaluate all images and documents that are publicly shared on a website. Which of the following would be the best tool to evaluate the metadata of these files?
A SaaS startup is maturing its DevSecOps program and wants to identify weaknesses earlier in the development process in order to reduce the average time to identify serverless application vulnerabilities and the costs associated with remediation The startup began its early security testing efforts with DAST to cover public-facing application components and recently implemented a bug bounty program Which of the following will BEST accomplish the company's objectives?
A security analyst discovered that the company’s WAF was not properly configured. The main web server was breached, and the following payload was found in one of the malicious requests:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this vulnerability?
A security analyst is reviewing the following output:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?
An organization is considering a BYOD standard to support remote working. The first iteration of the solution will utilize only approved collaboration applications and the ability to move corporate data between those applications. The security team has concerns about the following:
Unstructured data being exfiltrated after an employee leaves the organization
Data being exfiltrated as a result of compromised credentials
Sensitive information in emails being exfiltrated
Which of the following solutions should the security team implement to mitigate the risk of data loss?
A business stores personal client data of individuals residing in the EU in order to process requests for mortgage loan approvals.
Which of the following does the business’s IT manager need to consider?
A home automation company just purchased and installed tools for its SOC to enable incident identification and response on software the company develops. The company would like to prioritize defenses against the following attack scenarios:
Unauthorized insertions into application development environments
Authorized insiders making unauthorized changes to environment configurations
Which of the following actions will enable the data feeds needed to detect these types of attacks on development environments? (Choose two.)
A security solution uses a sandbox environment to execute zero-day software and collect indicators of compromise. Which of the following should the organization do to BEST take advantage of this solution?
A 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 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 CSP, which wants to compete in the market, has been approaching companies in an attempt to gain business. The CSP is able to provide the same uptime as other CSPs at a markedly reduced cost. Which of the following would be the MOST significant business risk to a company that signs a contract with this CSP?
A company has decided that only administrators are permitted to use PowerShell on their Windows computers. Which of the following is the BEST way for an administrator to implement this decision?
A security manager has written an incident response playbook for insider attacks and is ready to begin testing it. Which of the following should the manager conduct to test the playbook?
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 cloud security architect has been tasked with finding a solution for hardening VMS. The solution must meet the following requirements:
• Data needs to be stored outside of the VMS.
• No unauthorized modifications to the VMS are allowed
• If a change needs to be done, a new VM needs to be deployed.
Which of the following is the BEST solution?
A security analyst is reviewing a new IOC in which data is injected into an online process. The IOC shows the data injection could happen in the following ways:
• Five numerical digits followed by a dash, followed by four numerical digits; or
• Five numerical digits
When one of these IOCs is identified, the online process stops working. Which of the following regular expressions should be implemented in the NIPS?
A security 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
In comparison with traditional on-premises infrastructure configurations, defining ACLs in a CSP relies on:
A security analyst is trying to identify the source of a recent data loss incident. The analyst has reviewed all the for the time surrounding the identified all the assets on the network at the timeof the data loss. The analyst suspects the key to finding the source was obfuscated in an application. Which of the following tools should the analyst use NEXT?
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?
A company security engineer arrives at work to face the following scenario:
1) Website defacement
2) Calls from the company president indicating the website needs to be fixed Immediately because It Is damaging the brand
3) A Job offer from the company's competitor
4) A security analyst's investigative report, based on logs from the past six months, describing how lateral movement across the network from various IP addresses originating from a foreign adversary country resulted in exfiltrated data
Which of the following threat actors Is MOST likely involved?
As part of its risk strategy, a company is considering buying insurance for cybersecurity incidents.
Which of the following BEST describes this kind of risk response?
A penetration tester obtained root access on a Windows server and, according to the rules of engagement, is permitted to perform post-exploitation for persistence.
Which of the following techniques would BEST support this?
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) is developing corrective-action plans based on the following from a vulnerability scan of internal hosts:
Which of the following MOST appropriate corrective action to document for this finding?
An organization 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?
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 tobestdetermine whether financial data was lost?
An HVAC contractor requested network connectivity permission to remotely support/troubleshoot equipment issues at a company location. Currently, the company does not have a process that allows vendors remote access to the corporate network Which of the following solutions represents the BEST course of action to allow the contractor access?
city government's IT director was notified by the City council that the following cybersecurity requirements must be met to be awarded a large federal grant:
+ Logs for all critical devices must be retained for 365 days to enable monitoring and threat hunting.
+ All privileged user access must be tightly controlled and tracked to mitigate compromised accounts.
+ Ransomware threats and zero-day vulnerabilities must be quickly identified.
Which of the following technologies would BEST satisfy these requirements? (Select THREE).
An attacker infiltrated an electricity-generation site and disabled the safety instrumented system. Ransomware was also deployed on the engineering workstation. The environment has back-to-back firewalls separating the corporate and OT systems. Which of the following is the MOST likely security consequence of this attack?
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?
Users are claiming that a web server is not accessible. A security engineer logs for the site. The engineer connects to the server and runs netstat -an and receives the following output:
Which of the following is MOST likely happening to the server?
Due to internal resource constraints, the management team has asked the principal security architect to recommend a solution that shifts partial responsibility for application-level controls to the cloud provider. In the shared responsibility model, which of the following levels of service meets this requirement?
An auditor needs to scan documents at rest for sensitive text. These documents contain both text and Images. Which of the following software functionalities must be enabled in the DLP solution for the auditor to be able to fully read these documents? (Select TWO).
A 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 suspects a web server may have been infiltrated by a rival corporation. The security engineer reviews the web server logs and finds the following:
The security engineer looks at the code with a developer, and they determine the log entry is created when the following line is run:
Which of the following is an appropriate security control the company should implement?
A cybersecurity analyst receives a ticket that indicates a potential incident is occurring. There has been a large in log files generated by a generated by a website containing a ‘’Contact US’’ form. The analyst must determine if the increase in website traffic is due to a recent marketing campaign of if this is a potential incident. Which of the following would BEST assist the analyst?
A threat analyst notices the following URL while going through the HTTP logs.
Which of the following attack types is the threat analyst seeing?
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 software company wants to build a platform by integrating with another company's established product. Which of the following provisions would be MOST important to include when drafting an agreement between the two companies?
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?
A security team received a regulatory notice asking for information regarding collusion and pricing from staff members who are no longer with the organization. The legal department provided the security team with a list of search terms to investigate.
This is an example of:
An organization developed a social media application that is used by customers in multiple remote geographic locations around the world. The organization’s headquarters and only datacenter are located in New York City. The Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure the following requirements are met for the social media application:
Low latency for all mobile users to improve the users’ experience
SSL offloading to improve web server performance
Protection against DoS and DDoS attacks
High availability
Which of the following should the organization implement to BEST ensure all requirements are met?
A recent data breach stemmed from unauthorized access to an employee’s company account with a cloud-based productivity suite. The attacker exploited excessive permissions granted to a third-party OAuth application to collect sensitive information.
Which of the following BEST mitigates inappropriate access and permissions issues?
The OS on several servers crashed around the same time for an unknown reason. The servers were restored to working condition, and all file integrity was verified. Which of the following should the incident response team perform to understand the crash and prevent it in the future?
An organization is deploying a new, online digital bank and needs to ensure availability and performance. The cloud-based architecture is deployed using PaaS and SaaS solutions, and it was designed with the following considerations:
- Protection from DoS attacks against its infrastructure and web applications is in place.
- Highly available and distributed DNS is implemented.
- Static content is cached in the CDN.
- A WAF is deployed inline and is in block mode.
- Multiple public clouds are utilized in an active-passive architecture.
With the above controls in place, the bank is experiencing a slowdown on the unauthenticated payments page. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?
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 variouscustomer 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?
An enterprise is undergoing an audit to review change management activities when promoting code to production. The audit reveals the following:
• Some developers can directly publish code to the production environment.
• Static code reviews are performed adequately.
• Vulnerability scanning occurs on a regularly scheduled basis per policy.
Which of the following should be noted as a recommendation within the audit report?
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?
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 system administrator at a medical imaging company discovers protected health information (PHI) on a general-purpose file server. Which of the following steps should the administrator take NEXT?
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?
A company Invested a total of $10 million lor a new storage solution Installed across live on-site datacenters. Fitly percent of the cost of this Investment was for solid-state storage. Due to thehigh rate of wear on this storage, the company Is estimating that 5% will need to be replaced per year. Which of the following is the ALE due to storage replacement?
A company requires a task to be carried by more than one person concurrently. This is an example of:
A security analyst discovered that the company's WAF was not properly configured. The main web server was breached, and the following payload was found in one of the malicious requests:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this vulnerability?
A company just released a new video card. Due to limited supply and nigh demand, attackers are employing automated systems to purchase the device through the company's web store so they can resell it on the secondary market. The company's Intended customers are frustrated. A security engineer suggests implementing a CAPTCHA system on the web store to help reduce the number of video cards purchased through automated systems. Which of the following now describes the level of risk?
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 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 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 host on a company’s network has been infected by a worm that appears to be spreading via SMB. A security analyst has been tasked with containing the incident while also maintaining evidence for a subsequent investigation and malware analysis.
Which of the following steps would be best to perform FIRST?
Due to budget constraints, an organization created a policy that only permits vulnerabilities rated high and critical according to CVSS to be fixed or mitigated. A security analyst notices that many vulnerabilities that were previously scored as medium are now breaching higher thresholds. Upon further investigation, the analyst notices certain ratings are not aligned with the approved system categorization. Which of the following can the analyst do to get a better picture of the risk while adhering to the organization's policy?
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has launched to create a rebuts BCP/DR plan for the entire company. As part of the initiative , the security team must gather data supporting s operational importance for the applications used by the business and determine the order in which the application must be back online. Which of the following be the FIRST step taken by the team?
A cybersecurity analyst discovered a private key that could have been exposed.
Which of the following is the BEST way for the analyst to determine if the key has been compromised?