Train4sure CASP Questions Flashcards
An SQL database is no longer accessible online due to a recent security breach. An investigation reveals that unauthorized access to the database was possible due to an SQL injection vulnerability. To prevent this type of
breach in the future, which of the following security controls should be put in place before bringing the database back online? (Choose two.)
- Secure storage policies
- Browser security updates
- Input validation
- Web application firewall
- Secure coding standards
- Database activity monitoring
- Input validation
- Database activity monitoring
A company has entered into a business agreement with a business partner for managed human resources services. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been asked to provide documentation that is required to set up a business-to-business VPN between the two organizations. Which of the following is required in this scenario?
- ISA
- BIA
- SLA
- RA
- ISA
Given the following output from a local PC:
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Which of the following ACLs on a stateful host-based firewall would allow the PC to serve an intranet website?
- Allow 172.30.0.28:80 -> ANY
- Allow 172.30.0.28:80 -> 172.30.0.0/16
- Allow 172.30.0.28:80 -> 172.30.0.28:443
- Allow 172.30.0.28:80 -> 172.30.0.28:53
- Allow 172.30.0.28:80 -> 172.30.0.0/16
A penetration tester has been contracted to conduct a physical assessment of a site. Which of the following is the MOST plausible method of social engineering to be conducted during this engagement?
- Randomly calling customer employees and posing as a help desk technician requiring user password to resolve issues
- Posing as a copier service technician and indicating the equipment had “phoned home” to alert the technician for a service call
- Simulating an illness while at a client location for a sales call and then recovering once listening devices are installed
- Obtaining fake government credentials and impersonating law enforcement to gain access to a company facility
- Posing as a copier service technician and indicating the equipment had “phoned home” to alert the technician for a service call
A penetration tester is conducting an assessment on Comptia.org and runs the following command from a coffee shop while connected to the public Internet:
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Which of the following should the penetration tester conclude about the command output?
- The public/private views on the Comptia.org DNS servers are misconfigured
- Comptia.org is running an older mail server, which may be vulnerable to exploits
- The DNS SPF records have not been updated for Comptia.org
- 192.168.102.67 is a backup mail server that may be more vulnerable to attack
- Comptia.org is running an older mail server, which may be vulnerable to exploits
Two new technical SMB security settings have been enforced and have also become policies that increase secure communications.
- Network Client: Digitally sign communication
- Network Server: Digitally sign communication
A storage administrator in a remote location with a legacy storage array, which contains time-sensitive data, reports employees can no longer connect to their department shares. Which of the following mitigation strategies should an information security manager recommend to the data owner?
- Accept the risk, reverse the settings for the remote location, and have the remote location file a risk exception until the legacy storage device can be upgraded
- Accept the risk for the remote location, and reverse the settings indefinitely since the legacy storage device will not be upgraded
- Mitigate the risk for the remote location by suggesting a move to a cloud service provider. Have the remote location request an indefinite risk exception for the use of cloud storage
- Avoid the risk, leave the settings alone, and decommission the legacy storage device
- Accept the risk, reverse the settings for the remote location, and have the remote location file a risk exception until the legacy storage device can be upgraded
During a security assessment, an organization is advised of inadequate control over network segmentation. The assessor explains that the organization’s reliance on VLANs to segment traffic is insufficient to provide segmentation based on regulatory standards. Which of the following should the organization consider implementing along with VLANs to provide a greater level of segmentation?
- Air gaps
- Access control lists
- Spanning tree protocol
- Network virtualization
- Elastic load balancing
- Air gaps
A security administrator was informed that a server unexpectedly rebooted. The administrator received an export of syslog entries for analysis:
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Which of the following does the log sample indicate? (Choose two.)
- A root user performed an injection attack via kernel module
- Encrypted payroll data was successfully decrypted by the attacker
- Jsmith successfully used a privilege escalation attack
- Payroll data was exfiltrated to an attacker-controlled host
- Buffer overflow in memory paging caused a kernel panic
- Syslog entries were lost due to the host being rebooted
- Jsmith successfully used a privilege escalation attack
- Buffer overflow in memory paging caused a kernel panic
A security incident responder discovers an attacker has gained access to a network and has overwritten key system files with backdoor software. The server was reimaged and patched offline. Which of the following tools should be implemented to detect similar attacks?
- Vulnerability scanner
- TPM
- Host-based firewall
- File integrity monitor
- NIPS
- File integrity monitor
An organization is in the process of integrating its operational technology and information technology areas. As part of the integration, some of the cultural aspects it would like to see include more efficient use of resources during change windows, better protection of critical infrastructure, and the ability to respond to incidents. The following observations have been identified:
- The ICS supplier has specified that any software installed will result in lack of support.
- There is no documented trust boundary defined between the SCADA and corporate networks.
- Operational technology staff have to manage the SCADA equipment via the engineering workstation.
- There is a lack of understanding of what is within the SCADA network.
Which of the following capabilities would BEST improve the security position?
- VNC, router, and HIPS
- SIEM, VPN, and firewall
- Proxy, VPN, and WAF
- IDS, NAC, and log monitoring
- VNC, router, and HIPS
An internal penetration tester was assessing a recruiting page for potential issues before it was pushed to the production website. The penetration tester discovers an issue that must be corrected before the page goes live. The web host administrator collects the log files below and gives them to the development team so improvements can be made to the security design of the website.
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Which of the following types of attack vector did the penetration tester use?
- SQL injection
- CSRF
- Brute force
- XSS
- TOC/TOU
- CSRF
After embracing a BYOD policy, a company is faced with new security challenges from unmanaged mobile devices and laptops. The company’s IT department has seen a large number of the following incidents:
- Duplicate IP addresses
- Rogue network devices
- Infected systems probing the company’s network
Which of the following should be implemented to remediate the above issues? (Choose two.)
- Port security
- Route protection
- NAC
- HIPS
- NIDS
- Route protection
- NAC
Following a security assessment, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is reviewing the results of the assessment and evaluating potential risk treatment strategies. As part of the CISO’s evaluation, a judgment of potential impact based on the identified risk is performed. To prioritize response actions, the CISO uses past experience to take into account the exposure factor as well as the external accessibility of the weakness identified. Which of the following is the CISO performing?
- Documentation of lessons learned
- Quantitative risk assessment
- Qualitative assessment of risk
- Business impact scoring
- Threat modeling
- Quantitative risk assessment
A recent assessment identified that several users’ mobile devices are running outdated versions of endpoint security software that do not meet the company’s security policy. Which of the following should be performed to ensure the users can access the network and meet the company’s security requirements?
- Vulnerability assessment
- Risk assessment
- Patch management
- Device quarantine
- Incident management
- Patch management
A systems 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?
- Isolate all of the PHI on its own VLAN and keep it segregated at Layer 2
- Immediately encrypt all PHI with AES 256
- Delete all PHI from the network until the legal department is consulted
- Consult the legal department to determine legal requirements
- Immediately encrypt all PHI with AES 256
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is reviewing the results of a gap analysis with an outside cybersecurity consultant. The gap analysis reviewed all procedural and technical controls and found the following:
- High-impact controls implemented: 6 out of 10
- Medium-impact controls implemented: 409 out of 472
- Low-impact controls implemented: 97 out of 1000
The report includes a cost-benefit analysis for each control gap. The analysis yielded the following information:
- Average high-impact control implementation cost: $15,000; Probable ALE for each high-impact control gap: $95,000
- Average medium-impact control implementation cost: $6,250; Probable ALE for each medium-impact control
gap: $11,000
Due to the technical construction and configuration of the corporate enterprise, slightly more than 50% of the
medium-impact controls will take two years to fully implement. Which of the following conclusions could the
CISO draw from the analysis?
- Too much emphasis has been placed on eliminating low-risk vulnerabilities in the past
- The enterprise security team has focused exclusively on mitigating high-level risks
- Because of the significant ALE for each high-risk vulnerability, efforts should be focused on those controls
- The cybersecurity team has balanced residual risk for both high and medium controls
- Because of the significant ALE for each high-risk vulnerability, efforts should be focused on those controls
A financial consulting firm recently recovered from some damaging incidents that were associated with malware installed via rootkit. Post-incident analysis is ongoing, and the incident responders and systems administrators are working to determine a strategy to reduce the risk of recurrence. The firm’s systems are running modern operating systems and feature UEFI and TPMs. Which of the following technical options would provide the MOST preventive value?
- Update and deploy GPOs
- Configure and use measured boot
- Strengthen the password complexity requirements
- Update the antivirus software and definitions
- Update the antivirus software and definitions
The risk subcommittee of a corporate board typically maintains a master register of the most prominent risks to the company. A centralized holistic view of risk is particularly important to the corporate Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) because:
- IT systems are maintained in silos to minimize interconnected risks and provide clear risk boundaries used to implement compensating controls
- risks introduced by a system in one business unit can affect other business units in ways in which the individual business units have no awareness
- corporate general counsel requires a single system boundary to determine overall corporate risk exposure
- major risks identified by the subcommittee merit the prioritized allocation of scare funding to address cybersecurity concerns
- IT systems are maintained in silos to minimize interconnected risks and provide clear risk boundaries used to implement compensating controls
An insurance company has two million customers and is researching the top transactions on its customer portal. It identifies that the top transaction is currently password reset. Due to users not remembering their secret questions, a large number of calls are consequently routed to the contact center for manual password resets. The business wants to develop a mobile application to improve customer engagement in the future, continue with a single factor of authentication, minimize management overhead of the solution, remove passwords, and eliminate to the contact center. Which of the following techniques would BEST meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
- Magic link sent to an email address
- Customer ID sent via push notification
- SMS with OTP sent to a mobile number
- Third-party social login
- Certificate sent to be installed on a device
- Hardware tokens sent to customers
- SMS with OTP sent to a mobile number
- Certificate sent to be installed on a device
The board of a financial services company has requested that the senior security analyst acts as a cybersecurity advisor in order to comply with recent federal legislation. The analyst is required to give a report on current cybersecurity and threat trends in the financial services industry at the next board meeting. Which of the following would be the BEST methods to prepare this report? (Choose two.)
- Review the CVE database for critical exploits over the past year
- Use social media to contact industry analysts
- Use intelligence gathered from the Internet relay chat channels
- Request information from security vendors and government agencies
- Perform a penetration test of the competitor’s network and share the results with the board
- Review the CVE database for critical exploits over the past year
- Request information from security vendors and government agencies
Management is reviewing the results of a recent risk assessment of the organization’s policies and procedures. During the risk assessment it is determined that procedures associated with background checks have not been effectively implemented. In response to this risk, the organization elects to revise policies and procedures related to background checks and use a third-party to perform background checks on all new employees. Which of the following risk management strategies has the organization employed?
- Transfer
- Mitigate
- Accept
- Avoid
- Reject
- Mitigate
An advanced threat emulation engineer is conducting testing against a client’s network. The engineer conducts the testing in as realistic a manner as possible. Consequently, the engineer has been gradually ramping up the volume of attacks over a long period of time. Which of the following combinations of techniques would the engineer MOST likely use in this testing? (Choose three.)
- Black box testing
- Gray box testing
- Code review
- Social engineering
- Vulnerability assessment
- Pivoting
- Self-assessment
- White teaming
- External auditing
- Black box testing
- Vulnerability assessment
- Pivoting
A security engineer must establish a method to assess compliance with company security policies as they apply to the unique configuration of individual endpoints, as well as to the shared configuration policies of common
devices.
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Which of the following tools is the security engineer using to produce the above output?
- Vulnerability scanner
- SIEM
- Port scanner
- SCAP scanner
- SCAP scanner
A newly hired systems administrator is trying to connect a new and fully updated, but very customized, Android device to access corporate resources. However, the MDM enrollment process continually fails. The administrator asks a security team member to look into the issue. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason the MDM is not allowing enrollment?
- The OS version is not compatible
- The OEM is prohibited
- The device does not support FDE
- The device is rooted
- The device is rooted
A SaaS-based email service provider often receives reports from legitimate customers that their IP netblocks are on blacklists and they cannot send email. The SaaS has confirmed that affected customers typically have IP addresses within broader network ranges and some abusive customers within the same IP ranges may have performed spam campaigns. Which of the following actions should the SaaS provider perform to minimize legitimate customer impact?
- Inform the customer that the service provider does not have any control over third-party blacklist entries. The customer should reach out to the blacklist operator directly
- Perform a takedown of any customer accounts that have entries on email blacklists because this is a strong indicator of hostile behavior
- Work with the legal department and threaten legal action against the blacklist operator if the netblocks are not removed because this is affecting legitimate traffic
- Establish relationship with a blacklist operators so broad entries can be replaced with more granular entries and incorrect entries can be quickly pruned
- Establish relationship with a blacklist operators so broad entries can be replaced with more granular entries and incorrect entries can be quickly pruned
An agency has implemented a data retention policy that requires tagging data according to type before storing it in the data repository. The policy requires all business emails be automatically deleted after two years. During an open records investigation, information was found on an employee’s work computer concerning a conversation that occurred three years prior and proved damaging to the agency’s reputation. Which of the following MOST likely caused the data leak?
- The employee manually changed the email client retention settings to prevent deletion of emails
- The file that contained the damaging information was mistagged and retained on the server for longer than it should have been
- The email was encrypted and an exception was put in place via the data classification application
- The employee saved a file on the computer’s hard drive that contained archives of emails, which were more than two years old
- The employee saved a file on the computer’s hard drive that contained archives of emails, which were more than two years old
A security architect is implementing security measures in response to an external audit that found vulnerabilities in the corporate collaboration tool suite. The report identified the lack of any mechanism to provide confidentiality for electronic correspondence between users and between users and group mailboxes. Which of the following controls would BEST mitigate the identified vulnerability?
- Issue digital certificates to all users, including owners of group mailboxes, and enable S/MIME
- Federate with an existing PKI provider, and reject all non-signed emails
- Implement two-factor email authentication, and require users to hash all email messages upon receipt
- Provide digital certificates to all systems, and eliminate the user group or shared mailboxes
- Issue digital certificates to all users, including owners of group mailboxes, and enable S/MIME
Which of the following BEST represents a risk associated with merging two enterprises during an acquisition?
- The consolidation of two different IT enterprises increases the likelihood of the data loss because there are now two backup systems
- Integrating two different IT systems might result in a successful data breach if threat intelligence is not shared between the two enterprises
- Merging two enterprise networks could result in an expanded attack surface and could cause outages if trust and permission issues are not handled carefully
- Expanding the set of data owners requires an in-depth review of all data classification decisions, impacting availability during the review
- Merging two enterprise networks could result in an expanded attack surface and could cause outages if trust and permission issues are not handled carefully
A company is developing requirements for a customized OS build that will be used in an embedded environment. The company procured hardware that is capable of reducing the likelihood of successful buffer overruns while executables are processing. Which of the following capabilities must be included for the OS to take advantage of this critical hardware-based countermeasure?
- Application whitelisting
- NX/XN bit
- ASLR
- TrustZone
- SCP
- NX/XN bit
After multiple service interruptions caused by an older datacenter design, a company decided to migrate away from its datacenter. The company has successfully completed the migration of all datacenter servers and services to a cloud provider. The migration project includes the following phases:
- Selection of a cloud provider
- Architectural design
- Microservice segmentation
- Virtual private cloud
- Geographic service redundancy
- Service migration
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is still concerned with the availability requirements of critical company applications. Which of the following should the company implement NEXT?
- Multicloud solution
- Single-tenancy private cloud
- Hybrid cloud solution
- Cloud access security broker
- Cloud access security broker
Legal authorities notify a company that its network has been compromised for the second time in two years. The investigation shows the attackers were able to use the same vulnerability on different systems in both attacks. Which of the following would have allowed the security team to use historical information to protect against the second attack?
- Key risk indicators
- Lessons learned
- Recovery point objectives
- Tabletop exercise
- Lessons learned
A hospital’s security team recently determined its network was breached and patient data was accessed by an external entity. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the hospital approaches the executive management team with this information, reports the vulnerability that led to the breach has already been remediated, and explains the team is continuing to follow the appropriate incident response plan. The executive team is concerned about the hospital’s brand reputation and asks the CISO when the incident should be disclosed to the affected patients. Which of the following is the MOST appropriate response?
- When it is mandated by their legal and regulatory requirements
- As soon as possible in the interest of the patients
- As soon as the public relations department is ready to be interviewed
- When all steps related to the incident response plan are completed
- Upon the approval of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to release information to the public
- When it is mandated by their legal and regulatory requirements
A deployment manager is working with a software development group to assess the security of a new version of the organization’s internally developed ERP tool. The organization prefers to not perform assessment activities following deployment, instead focusing on assessing security throughout the life cycle. Which of the following methods would BEST assess the security of the product?
- Static code analysis in the IDE environment
- Penetration testing of the UAT environment
- Vulnerability scanning of the production environment
- Penetration testing of the production environment
- Peer review prior to unit testing
- Vulnerability scanning of the production environment
During a security event investigation, a junior analyst fails to create an image of a server’s hard drive before removing the drive and sending it to the forensics analyst. Later, the evidence from the analysis is not usable in the prosecution of the attackers due to the uncertainty of tampering. Which of the following should the junior analyst have followed?
- Continuity of operations
- Chain of custody
- Order of volatility
- Data recovery
- Order of volatility
A company wants to extend its help desk availability beyond business hours. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) decides to augment the help desk with a third-party service that will answer calls and provide Tier 1 problem resolution, such as password resets and remote assistance. The security administrator implements the following firewall change:
PERMIT TCP FROM 74.23.2.4 TO 192.168.20.20 PORT 80
PERMIT TCP FROM 74.23.2.4 TO 192.168.20.20 PORT 636
PERMIT TCP FROM 74.23.2.4 TO 192.168.20.20 PORT 5800
PERMIT TCP FROM 74.23.2.4 TO 192.168.20.20 PORT 1433
The administrator provides the appropriate path and credentials to the third-party company. Which of the following technologies is MOST likely being used to provide access to the third company?
- LDAP
- WAYF
- OpenID
- RADIUS
- SAML
- LDAP
A company contracts a security engineer to perform a penetration test of its client-facing web portal. Which of the following activities would be MOST appropriate?
- Use a protocol analyzer against the site to see if data input can be replayed from the browser
- Scan the website through an interception proxy and identify areas for the code injection
- Scan the site with a port scanner to identify vulnerable services running on the web server
- Use network enumeration tools to identify if the server is running behind a load balancer
- Scan the site with a port scanner to identify vulnerable services running on the web server
A large enterprise with thousands of users is experiencing a relatively high frequency of malicious activity from the insider threats. Much of the activity appears to involve internal reconnaissance that results in targeted attacks against privileged users and network file shares. Given this scenario, which of the following would MOST likely prevent or deter these attacks? (Choose two.)
- Conduct role-based training for privileged users that highlights common threats against them and covers best practices to thwart attacks
- Increase the frequency at which host operating systems are scanned for vulnerabilities, and decrease the amount of time permitted between vulnerability identification and the application of corresponding patches
- Enforce command shell restrictions via group policies for all workstations by default to limit which native operating system tools are available for use
- Modify the existing rules of behavior to include an explicit statement prohibiting users from enumerating user and file directories using available tools and/or accessing visible resources that do not directly pertain
to their job functions - For all workstations, implement full-disk encryption and configure UEFI instances to require complex passwords for authentication
- Implement application blacklisting enforced by the operating systems of all machines in the enterprise
- Enforce command shell restrictions via group policies for all workstations by default to limit which native operating system tools are available for use
- Modify the existing rules of behavior to include an explicit statement prohibiting users from enumerating user and file directories using available tools and/or accessing visible resources that do not directly pertain
to their job functions
An organization is currently working with a client to migrate data between a legacy ERP system and a cloud-based ERP tool using a global PaaS provider. As part of the engagement, the organization is performing data deduplication and sanitization of client data to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the need to sanitize the client data?
- Data aggregation
- Data sovereignty
- Data isolation
- Data volume
- Data analytics
- Data sovereignty
A software development manager is running a project using agile development methods. The company cybersecurity engineer has noticed a high number of vulnerabilities have been making it into production code on the project.
Which of the following methods could be used in addition to an integrated development environment to reduce the severity of the issue?
A. Conduct a penetration test on each function as it is developed
B. Develop a set of basic checks for common coding errors
C. Adopt a waterfall method of software development
D. Implement unit tests that incorporate static code analyzers
- Implement unit tests that incorporate static code analyzers
A security analyst sees some suspicious entries in a log file from a web server website, which has a form that allows customers to leave feedback on the company’s products. The analyst believes a malicious actor is scanning the web form. To know which security controls to put in place, the analyst first needs to determine the type of activity occurring to design a control. Given the log below:
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Which of the following is the MOST likely type of activity occurring?
- SQL injection
- XSS scanning
- Fuzzing
- Brute forcing
- Brute forcing
An organization has established the following controls matrix:
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The following control sets have been defined by the organization and are applied in aggregate fashion:
- Systems containing PII are protected with the minimum control set.
- Systems containing medical data are protected at the moderate level.
- Systems containing cardholder data are protected at the high level.
The organization is preparing to deploy a system that protects the confidentially of a database containing PII and medical data from clients. Based on the controls classification, which of the following controls would BEST meet these requirements?
- Proximity card access to the server room, context-based authentication, UPS, and full-disk encryption for the database server.
- Cipher lock on the server room door, FDE, surge protector, and static analysis of all application code.
- Peer review of all application changes, static analysis of application code, UPS, and penetration testing of the complete system.
- Intrusion detection capabilities, network-based IPS, generator, and context-based authentication.
- Intrusion detection capabilities, network-based IPS, generator, and context-based authentication.
A company’s existing forward proxies support software-based TLS decryption, but are currently at 60% load just dealing with AV scanning and content analysis for HTTP traffic. More than 70% outbound web traffic is currently encrypted. The switching and routing network infrastructure precludes adding capacity, preventing the installation of a dedicated TLS decryption system. The network firewall infrastructure is currently at 30% load and has software decryption modules that can be activated by purchasing additional license keys. An existing project is rolling out agent updates to end-user desktops as part of an endpoint security refresh.
Which of the following is the BEST way to address these issues and mitigate risks to the organization?
- Purchase the SSL decryption license for the firewalls and route traffic back to the proxies for end-user categorization and malware analysis.
- Roll out application whitelisting to end-user desktops and decommission the existing proxies, freeing up network ports.
- Use an EDP solution to address the malware issue and accept the diminishing role of the proxy for URL categorization in the short team.
- Accept the current risk and seek possible funding approval in the next budget cycle to replace the existing proxies with ones with more capacity.
- Purchase the SSL decryption license for the firewalls and route traffic back to the proxies for end-user categorization and malware analysis.
Security policies that are in place at an organization prohibit USB drives from being utilized across the entire enterprise, with adequate technical controls in place to block them. As a way to still be able to work from various locations on different computing resources, several sales staff members have signed up for a web-based
storage solution without the consent of the IT department. However, the operations department is required to use the same service to transmit certain business partner documents.
Which of the following would BEST allow the IT department to monitor and control this behavior?
- Enabling AAA
- Deploying a CASB
- Configuring an NGFW
- Installing a WAF
- Utilizing a vTPM
- Deploying a CASB
Legal counsel has notified the information security manager of a legal matter that will require the preservation of electronic records for 2000 sales force employees. Source records will be email, PC, network shares, and applications.
After all restrictions have been lifted, which of the following should the information manager review?
- Data retention policy
- Legal hold
- Chain of custody
- Scope statement
- Data retention policy
The legal department has required that all traffic to and from a company’s cloud-based word processing and email system is logged. To meet this requirement, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has implemented a next-generation firewall to perform inspection of the secure traffic and has decided to use a cloud-based log aggregation solution for all traffic that is logged.
Which of the following presents a long-term risk to user privacy in this scenario?
- Confidential or sensitive documents are inspected by the firewall before being logged.
- Latency when viewing videos and other online content may increase.
- Reports generated from the firewall will take longer to produce due to more information from inspected traffic.
- Stored logs may contain non-encrypted usernames and passwords for personal websites.
- Confidential or sensitive documents are inspected by the firewall before being logged.
A breach was caused by an insider threat in which customer PII was compromised. Following the breach, a lead security analyst is asked to determine which vulnerabilities the attacker used to access company resources.
Which of the following should the analyst use to remediate the vulnerabilities?
- Protocol analyzer
- Root cause analysis
- Behavioral analytics
- Data leak prevention
- Data leak prevention
Ann, a member of the finance department at a large corporation, has submitted a suspicious email she received to the information security team. The team was not expecting an email from Ann, and it contains a PDF file inside a ZIP compressed archive. The information security learn is not sure which files were opened. A security team member uses an air-gapped PC to open the ZIP and PDF, and it appears to be a social engineering attempt to deliver an exploit.
Which of the following would provide greater insight on the potential impact of this attempted attack?
- Run an antivirus scan on the finance PC.
- Use a protocol analyzer on the air-gapped PC.
- Perform reverse engineering on the document.
- Analyze network logs for unusual traffic.
- Run a baseline analyzer against the user’s computer.
- Use a protocol analyzer on the air-gapped PC.
A new cluster of virtual servers has been set up in a lab environment and must be audited before being allowed on the production network. The security manager needs to ensure unnecessary services are disabled and all system accounts are using strong credentials.
Which of the following tools should be used? (Choose two.)
- Fuzzer
- SCAP scanner
- Packet analyzer
- Password cracker
- Network enumerator
- SIEM
- SCAP scanner
- SIEM
A security engineer is working with a software development team. The engineer is tasked with ensuring all security requirements are adhered to by the developers.
Which of the following BEST describes the contents of the supporting document the engineer is creating?
- A series of ad-hoc tests that each verify security control functionality of the entire system at once.
- A series of discrete tasks that, when viewed in total, can be used to verify and document each individual constraint from the SRTM.
- A set of formal methods that apply to one or more of the programing languages used on the development project.
- A methodology to verify each security control in each unit of developed code prior to committing the code.
- A series of discrete tasks that, when viewed in total, can be used to verify and document each individual constraint from the SRTM.
Given the following information about a company’s internal network:
- User IP space: 192.168.1.0/24
- Server IP space: 192.168.192.0/25
A security engineer has been told that there are rogue websites hosted outside of the proper server space, and those websites need to be identified.
Which of the following should the engineer do?
- Use a protocol analyzer on 192.168.1.0/24
- Use a port scanner on 192.168.1.0/24
- Use an HTTP interceptor on 192.168.1.0/24
- Use a port scanner on 192.168.192.0/25
- Use a protocol analyzer on 192.168.192.0/25
- Use an HTTP interceptor on 192.168.192.0/25
- Use a port scanner on 192.168.1.0/24