A senior security analyst is helping the development team improve the security of an application that is being developed. The developers use third-party libraries and applications. The software in development used old, third-party packages that were not replaced before market distribution. Which of the following should be implemented into the SDLC to resolve the issue?

A company is experiencing a large number of attempted network-based attacks against its online store. To determine the best course of action, a security analyst reviews the following logs.

Which of the following should the company do next to mitigate the risk of a compromise from these attacks?

The IT team suggests the company would save money by using self-signed certificates, but the security team indicates the company must use digitally signed third-party certificates. Which of the following is a valid reason to pursue the security team's recommendation?

In support of disaster recovery objectives, a third party agreed to provide 99.999% uptime. Recently, a hardware failure impacted a firewall without service degradation. Which of the following resiliency concepts was most likely in place?

A company moved its on-premises services to the cloud. Although a recent audit verified that data throughout the cloud service is properly classified and documented, other systems are unable to act or filter based on this information. Which of the following should the company deploy to allow other cloud-based systems to consume this information?

A security researcher identified the following messages while testing a web application:

Which of the following should the researcher recommend to remediate the issue?

A security analyst identified a vulnerable and deprecated runtime engine that is supporting a public-facing banking application. The developers anticipate the transition to modern development environments will take at least a month. Which of the following controls would best mitigate the risk without interrupting the service during the transition?

A company's Chief Information Security Officer wants to prevent the company from being the target of ransomware. The company's IT assets need to be protected. Which of the following are the most secure options to address these concerns? (Select three).

A 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 security engineer is assessing the security controls of loT systems that are no longer supported for updates and patching. Which of the following is the best mitigation for defending these loT systems?

Which of the following technologies would benefit the most from the use of biometric readers proximity badge entry systems, and the use of hardware security tokens to access various environments and data entry systems?

Which of the following is the best reason for obtaining file hashes from a confiscated laptop?

A security engineer is reviewing Apache web server logs and has identified the following pattern in the log:

GET https://example.com/image5/../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1 200 OK

The engineer has also reviewed IDS and firewall logs and established a correlation to an external IP address. Which of the following can be determined regarding the vulnerability and response?

A company uses a CSP to provide a front end for its new payment system offering. The new offering is currently certified as PCI compliant. In order for the integrated solution to be

compliant, the customer:

After investigating a recent security incident, a SOC analyst is charged with creating a reference guide for the entire team to use. Which of the following should the analyst create to address future incidents?

Which of the following security features do email signatures provide?

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?

A security engineer investigates an incident and determines that a rogue device is on the network. Further investigation finds that an employee's personal device has been set up to access company resources and does not comply with standard security controls. Which of the following should the security engineer recommend to reduce the risk of future reoccurrence?

A forensics investigator is analyzing an executable file extracted from storage media that was submitted (or evidence The investigator must use a tool that can identify whether the executable has indicators, which may point to the creator of the file Which of the following should the investigator use while preserving evidence integrity?

A cyberanalyst for a government agency is concerned about how Pll is protected A supervisor indicates that a Privacy Impact Assessment must be done. Which of the following describes a function of a Privacy Impact Assessment?

A company has a website with a huge database. The company wants to ensure that a DR site could be brought online quickly in the event of a failover, and end users would miss no more than 30 minutes of data. Which of the following should the company do to meet these objectives?

An organization needs to classify its systems and data in accordance with external requirements. Which of the following roles is best qualified to perform this task?

The information security manager at a 24-hour manufacturing facility is reviewing a contract for potential risks to the organization. The contract pertains to the support of printers and multifunction devices during non-standard business hours. Which of the following will the security manager most likely identify as a risk?

A security analyst has been tasked with assessing a new API The analyst needs to be able to test for a variety of different inputs, both malicious and benign, in order to close any vulnerabilities Which of the following should the analyst use to achieve this goal?

A software developer must choose encryption algorithms to secure two parts of a mobile application. Given the following part descriptions and requirements:

•The first part of the application is used to transfer large files and must support file parts with transfer start/stop/resume. This part requires strong file encryption.

•The second part of the application uses a bit stream to continuously authenticate both ends of the connection. This part must implement confidentiality for the stream.

Which of the following encryption algorithms should the developer implement in the code to support both parts of the application? (Select two).

A software development company wants to ensure that users can confirm the software is legitimate when installing it. Which of the following is the best way for the company to achieve this security objective?

A security engineer is re-architecting a network environment that provides regional electric distribution services. During a pretransition baseline assessment, the engineer identified the following security-relevant characteristics of the environment:

• Enterprise IT servers and supervisory industrial systems share the same subnet.

• Supervisory controllers use the 750MHz band to direct a portion of fielded PLCs.

• Command and telemetry messages from industrial control systems are unencrypted and unauthenticated.

Which of the following re-architecture approaches would be best to reduce the company's risk?

A security architect discovers the following while reviewing code for a company’s website:

selection = "SELECT Item FROM Catalog WHERE ItemID * " & Request("ItemID”)

Which of the following should the security architect recommend?

A security analyst is reviewing the following output from a vulnerability scan from an organization's internet-facing web services:

Which of the following indicates a susceptibility whereby an attacker can take advantage of the trust relationship between the client and the server?

A technician accidentally deleted the secret key that was corresponding to the public key pinned to a busy online magazine. To remedy the situation, the technician obtained a new certificate with a different key. However, paying subscribers were locked out of the website until the key-pinning policy expired. Which of the following alternatives should the technician adopt to prevent a similar issue in the future?

When managing and mitigating SaaS cloud vendor risk, which of the following responsibilities belongs to the client?

An organization has an operational requirement with a specific equipment vendor The organization is located in the United States, but the vendor is located in another region Which of the following risks would be most concerning to the organization in the event of equipment failure?

A company has identified a number of vulnerable, end-of-support systems with limited defensive capabilities. Which of the following would be the first step in reducing the attack surface in this environment?

An multinational organization was hacked, and the incident response team's timely action prevented a major disaster Following the event, the team created an after action report. Which of the following is the primary goal of an after action review?

A PKI engineer is defining certificate templates for an organization's CA and would like to ensure at least two of the possible SAN certificate extension fields populate for documentation purposes. Which of the following are explicit options within this extension? (Select two).

Which of the following is the reason why security engineers often cannot upgrade the security of embedded facility automation systems?

A company created an external application for its customers. A security researcher now reports that the application has a serious LDAP injection vulnerability that could be leveraged to bypass authentication and authorization.

Which of the following actions would BEST resolve the issue? (Choose two.)

A 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?

Ransomware encrypted the entire human resources fileshare for a large financial institution. Security operations personnel were unaware of the activity until it was too late to stop it. The restoration will take approximately four hours, and the last backup occurred 48 hours ago. The management team has indicated that the RPO for a disaster recovery event for this data classification is 24 hours.

Based on RPO requirements, which of the following recommendations should the management team make?

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?

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?

Which of the following are risks associated with vendor lock-in? (Choose two.)

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?

Due to locality and budget constraints, an organization’s satellite office has a lower bandwidth allocation than other offices in the organization. As a result, the local security infrastructure staff is assessing architectural options that will help preserve network bandwidth and increase speed to both internal and external resources while not sacrificing threat visibility.

Which of the following would be the BEST option to implement?

A 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.)

An organization’s hunt team thinks a persistent threats exists and already has a foothold in the enterprise network.

Which of the following techniques would be BEST for the hunt team to use to entice the adversary to uncover malicious activity?

Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?

A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time.

Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow will reduce the operational risk to the company if the third party stops supporting the application?

A security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will meet the following requirements:

Identify sensitive data in the provider’s network

Maintain compliance with company and regulatory guidelines

Detect and respond to insider threats, privileged user threats, and compromised accounts

Enforce datacentric security, such as encryption, tokenization, and access control

Which of the following solutions should the security engineer recommend to address these requirements?

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 analyst is performing a vulnerability assessment on behalf of a client. The analyst must define what constitutes a risk to the organization.

Which of the following should be the analyst’s FIRST action?

All staff at a company have started working remotely due to a global pandemic. To transition to remote work, the company has migrated to SaaS collaboration tools. The human resources department wants to use these tools to process sensitive information but is concerned the data could be:

Leaked to the media via printing of the documents

Sent to a personal email address

Accessed and viewed by systems administrators

Uploaded to a file storage site

Which of the following would mitigate the department’s concerns?

A small business requires a low-cost approach to theft detection for the audio recordings it produces and sells.

Which of the following techniques will MOST likely meet the business’s needs?

A security architect is implementing a web application that uses a database back end. Prior to the production, the architect is concerned about the possibility of XSS attacks and wants to identify security controls that could be put in place to prevent these attacks.

Which of the following sources could the architect consult to address this security concern?

A disaster recovery team learned of several mistakes that were made during the last disaster recovery parallel test. Computational resources ran out at 70% of restoration of critical services.

Which of the following should be modified to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

A security analyst is researching containerization concepts for an organization. The analyst is concerned about potential resource exhaustion scenarios on the Docker host due to a single application that is overconsuming available resources.

Which of the following core Linux concepts BEST reflects the ability to limit resource allocation to containers?

A security analyst notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:

Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?

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Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?

A company undergoing digital transformation is reviewing the resiliency of a CSP and is concerned about meeting SLA requirements in the event of a CSP incident.

Which of the following would be BEST to proceed with the transformation?

A vulnerability analyst identified a zero-day vulnerability in a company’s internally developed software. Since the current vulnerability management system does not have any checks for this vulnerability, an engineer has been asked to create one.

Which of the following would be BEST suited to meet these requirements?

A 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?

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?

An application server was recently upgraded to prefer TLS 1.3, and now users are unable to connect their clients to the server. Attempts to reproduce the error are confirmed, and clients are reporting the following:

ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Which of the following is MOST likely the root cause?

A security analyst is investigating a possible buffer overflow attack. The following output was found on a user’s workstation:

graphic.linux_randomization.prg

Which of the following technologies would mitigate the manipulation of memory segments?

A 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?

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?

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?

An IT administrator is reviewing all the servers in an organization and notices that a server is missing crucial practice against a recent exploit that could gain root access.

Which of the following describes the administrator’s discovery?

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.

A developer is creating a new mobile application for a company. The application uses REST API and TLS 1.2 to communicate securely with the external back-end server. Due to this configuration, the company is concerned about HTTPS interception attacks.

Which of the following would be the BEST solution against this type of attack?

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?

Clients are reporting slowness when attempting to access a series of load-balanced APIs that do not require authentication. The servers that host the APIs are showing heavy CPU utilization. No alerts are found on the WAFs sitting in front of the APIs.

Which of the following should a security engineer recommend to BEST remedy the performance issues in a timely manner?

Which of the following is the MOST important security objective when applying cryptography to control messages that tell an ICS how much electrical power to output?

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?

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?

During a remodel, a company’s computer equipment was moved to a secure storage room with cameras positioned on both sides of the door. The door is locked using a card reader issued by the security team, and only the security team and department managers have access to the room. The company wants to be able to identify any unauthorized individuals who enter the storage room by following an authorized employee.

Which of the following processes would BEST satisfy this requirement?

A security consultant is designing an infrastructure security solution for a client company that has provided the following requirements:

• Access to critical web services at the edge must be redundant and highly available.

• Secure access services must be resilient to a proprietary zero-day vulnerability in a single component.

• Automated transition of secure access solutions must be able to be triggered by defined events or manually by security operations staff.

Which of the following solutions BEST meets these requirements?

Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?

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 software development company is building a new mobile application for its social media platform. The company wants to gain its users' trust by reducing the risk of on-path attacks between the mobile

client and its servers and by implementing stronger digital trust. To support users' trust, the company has released the following internal guidelines:

• Mobile clients should verify the identity of all social media servers locally.

• Social media servers should improve TLS performance of their certificate status

• Social media servers should inform the client to only use HTTPS.

Given the above requirements, which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO).

A security analyst for a managed service provider wants to implement the most up-to-date and effective security methodologies to provide clients with the best offerings. Which of the following resources

would the analyst MOST likely adopt?

A cloud security architect has been tasked with selecting the appropriate solution given the following:

* The solution must allow the lowest RTO possible.

* The solution must have the least shared responsibility possible.

« Patching should be a responsibility of the CSP.

Which of the following solutions can BEST fulfill the requirements?

In order to authenticate employees who, call in remotely, a company's help desk staff must be able to view partial Information about employees because the full information may be considered sensitive. Which of the following solutions should be implemented to authenticate employees?

In a shared responsibility model for PaaS, which of the following is a customer's responsibility?

A security researcher detonated some malware in a lab environment and identified the following commands running from the EDR tool:

With which of the following MITRE ATT&CK TTPs is the command associated? (Select TWO).

A managed security provider (MSP) is engaging with a customer who was working through a complete digital transformation Part of this transformation involves a move to cloud servers to ensure a scalable, high-performance, online user experience The current architecture includes:

• Directory servers

• Web servers

• Database servers

• Load balancers

• Cloud-native VPN concentrator

• Remote access server

The MSP must secure this environment similarly to the infrastructure on premises Which of the following should the MSP put in place to BEST meet this objective? (Select THREE)

A major broadcasting company that requires continuous availability to streaming content needs to be resilient against DDoS attacks Which of the following is the MOST important infrastructure security design element to prevent an outage7

In a cloud environment, the provider offers relief to an organization's teams by sharing in many of the operational duties. In a shared responsibility model, which of the following responsibilities belongs to the provider in a Paas implementation?

A systems administrator at a web-hosting provider has been tasked with renewing the public certificates of all customer sites. Which of the following would BEST support multiple domain names while minimizing the amount of certificates needed?

A cloud security engineer is setting up a cloud-hosted WAF. The engineer needs to implement a solution to protect the multiple websites the organization hosts. The organization websites are:

* www.mycompany.org

* www.mycompany.com

* campus.mycompany.com

* wiki. mycompany.org

The solution must save costs and be able to protect all websites. Users should be able to notify the cloud security engineer of any on-path attacks. Which of the following is the BEST solution?

During a recent security incident investigation, a security analyst mistakenly turned off the infected machine prior to consulting with a forensic analyst. upon rebooting the machine, a malicious script that

was running as a background process was no longer present. As a result, potentially useful evidence was lost. Which of the following should the security analyst have followed?

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 hospitality company experienced a data breach that included customer Pll. The hacker used social engineering to convince an employee to grant a third-party application access to some company documents within a cloud file storage service. Which of the following is the BEST solution to help prevent this type of attack in the future?

A 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 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).

Which of the following describes the system responsible for storing private encryption/decryption files with a third party to ensure these files are stored safely?

Which of the following is a risk associated with SDN?

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).

In comparison with traditional on-premises infrastructure configurations, defining ACLs in a CSP relies on:

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 university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field.

Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?

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?

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)_

An IPSec solution is being deployed. The configuration files for both the VPN

concentrator and the AAA server are shown in the diagram.

Complete the configuration files to meet the following requirements:

• The EAP method must use mutual certificate-based authentication (With

issued client certificates).

• The IKEv2 Cipher suite must be configured to the MOST secure

authenticated mode of operation,

• The secret must contain at least one uppercase character, one lowercase

character, one numeric character, and one special character, and it must

meet a minimum length requirement of eight characters,

INSTRUCTIONS

Click on the AAA server and VPN concentrator to complete the configuration.

Fill in the appropriate fields and make selections from the drop-down menus.

VPN Concentrator:

AAA Server:

A security architect is tasked with securing a new cloud-based videoconferencing and collaboration platform to support a new distributed workforce. The security architect's key objectives are to:

• Maintain customer trust

• Minimize data leakage

• Ensure non-repudiation

Which of the following would be the BEST set of recommendations from the security architect?

A security analyst is using data provided from a recent penetration test to calculate CVSS scores to prioritize remediation. Which of the following metric groups would the analyst need to determine to get the overall scores? (Select THREE).

A 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 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 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 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 Chief Information Security Officer is concerned about the possibility of employees downloading ‘malicious files from the internet and ‘opening them on corporate workstations. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to reduce this risk?

A developer needs to implement PKI in an autonomous vehicle's software in the most efficient and labor-effective way possible. Which of the following will the developer MOST likely implement?

Which of the following BEST describes a common use case for homomorphic encryption ?

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is working with a new company and needs a legal “document to ensure all parties understand their roles during an assessment. Which of the following should the CISO have each party sign?

A mobile administrator is reviewing the following mobile device DHCP logs to ensure the proper mobile settings are applied to managed devices:

Which of the following mobile configuration settings is the mobile administrator verifying?

A 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

A significant weather event caused all systems to fail over to the disaster recovery site successfully. However, successful data replication has not occurred in the last six months, which has resulted in

the service being unavailable. V•Vh1ch of the following would BEST prevent this scenario from happening again?

A 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 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?

Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?

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 forensic expert working on a fraud investigation for a US-based company collected a few disk images as evidence.

Which of the following offers an authoritative decision about whether the evidence was obtained legally?

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?

A user from the sales department opened a suspicious file attachment. The sales department then contacted the SOC to investigate a number of unresponsive systems, and the team successfully identified the file and the origin of the attack.

Which of the following is t he NEXT step of the incident response plan?

A software house is developing a new application. The application has the following requirements:

Reduce the number of credential requests as much as possible

Integrate with social networks

Authenticate users

Which of the following is the BEST federation method to use for the application?

A company just released a new video card. Due to limited supply and high demand, attackers are employing automated systems to purchase the device through the company's web store so they can resell it on the secondary market. The company's intended customers are frustrated. A security engineer suggests implementing a CAPTCHA system on the web store to help reduce the number of video cards purchased through automated systems. Which of the following now describes the level of risk?

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).

A security architect is reviewing the following proposed corporate firewall architecture and configuration:

Both firewalls are stateful and provide Layer 7 filtering and routing. The company has the following requirements:

Web servers must receive all updates via HTTP/S from the corporate network.

Web servers should not initiate communication with the Internet.

Web servers should only connect to preapproved corporate database servers.

Employees’ computing devices should only connect to web services over ports 80 and 443.

Which of the following should the architect recommend to ensure all requirements are met in the MOST secure manner? (Choose two.)

A local government that is investigating a data exfiltration claim was asked to review the fingerprint of the malicious user's actions. An investigator took a forensic image of the VM an downloaded the image to a secured USB drive to share with the government. Which of the following should be taken into consideration during the process of releasing the drive to the government?

A company is looking at sending historical backups containing customer PII to a cloud service provider to save on storage costs. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making this decision?

Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?

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 security analyst discovered that a database administrator's workstation was compromised by malware. After examining the Jogs. the compromised workstation was observed connecting to multiple databases through ODBC. The following query behavior was captured:

Assuming this query was used to acquire and exfiltrate data, which of the following types of data was compromised, and what steps should the incident response plan contain?

A) Personal health information: Inform the human resources department of the breach and review the DLP logs.

В) Account history; Inform the relationship managers of the breach and create new accounts for the affected users.

C) Customer IDs: Inform the customer service department of the breach and work to change the account numbers.

D) PAN: Inform the legal department of the breach and look for this data in dark web monitoring.

A recent audit discovered that multiple employees had been using their badges to walk through the secured data center to get to the employee break room. Most of the employees were given access during a previous project, but the access was not removed in a timely manner when the project was complete. Which of the following would reduce the likelihood of this scenario occurring again?

Which of the following controls primarily detects abuse of privilege but does not prevent it?

Given the following log snippet from a web server:

Which of the following BEST describes this type of attack?

An architectural firm is working with its security team to ensure that any draft images that are leaked to the public can be traced back to a specific external party. Which of the following would BEST accomplish this goal?

A developer implement the following code snippet.

Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?

A large number of emails have been reported, and a security analyst is reviewing the following information from the emails:

As part of the image process, which of the following is the FIRST step the analyst should take?

A cybersecurity engineer analyst a system for vulnerabilities. The tool created an OVAL. Results document as output. Which of the following would enable the engineer to interpret the results in a human readable form? (Select TWO.)

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?

Which of the following represents the MOST significant benefit of implementing a passwordless authentication solution?

An organization requires a legacy system to incorporate reference data into a new system. The organization anticipates the legacy system will remain in operation for the next 18 to 24 months. Additionally, the legacy system has multiple critical vulnerabilities with no patches available to resolve them. Which of the following is the BEST design option to optimize security?

A security analyst at a global financial firm was reviewing the design of a cloud-based system to identify opportunities to improve the security of the architecture. The system was recently involved in a data breach after a vulnerability was exploited within a virtual machine's operating system. The analyst observed the VPC in which the system was located was not peered with the security VPC that contained the centralized vulnerability scanner due to the cloud provider's limitations. Which of the following is the BEST course of action to help prevent this situation m the near future?

A development team created a mobile application that contacts a company’s back-end APIs housed in a PaaS environment. The APIs have been experiencing high processor utilization due to scraping activities. The security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will prevent and remedy the behavior.

Which of the following would BEST safeguard the APIs? (Choose two.)

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:

A vulnerability scanner detected an obsolete version of an open-source file-sharing application on one of a company’s Linux servers. While the software version is no longer supported by the OSS community, the company’s Linux vendor backported fixes, applied them for all current vulnerabilities, and agrees to support the software in the future.

Based on this agreement, this finding is BEST categorized as a:

An organization’s assessment of a third-party, non-critical vendor reveals that the vendor does not have cybersecurity insurance and IT staff turnover is high. The organization uses the vendor to move customer office equipment from one service location to another. The vendor acquires customer data and access to the business via an API.

Given this information, which of the following is a noted risk?

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 security analyst is reviewing the following vulnerability assessment report:

Which of the following should be patched FIRST to minimize attacks against Internet-facing hosts?

Which of the following technologies allows CSPs to add encryption across multiple data storages?

A company provides guest WiFi access to the internet and physically separates the guest network from the company’s internal WIFI. Due to a recent incident in which an attacker gained access to the compay’s intend WIFI, the company plans to configure WPA2 Enterprise in an EAP- TLS configuration. Which of the following must be installed on authorized hosts for this new configuration to work properly?

A software development company is building a new mobile application for its social media platform. The company wants to gain its Users' rust by reducing the risk of on-path attacks between the mobile client and its servers and

by implementing stronger digital trust. To support users’ trust, the company has released the following internal guidelines:

* Mobile clients should verify the identity of all social media servers locally.

* Social media servers should improve TLS performance of their certificate status.

* Social media servers should inform the client to only use HTTPS.

Given the above requirements, which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO).

A security engineer at a company is designing a system to mitigate recent setbacks caused competitors that are beating the company to market with the new products. Several of the products incorporate propriety enhancements developed by the engineer’s company. The network already includes a SEIM and a NIPS and requires 2FA for all user access. Which of the following system should the engineer consider NEXT to mitigate the associated risks?

The OS on several servers crashed around the same time for an unknown reason. The servers were restored to working condition, and all file integrity was verified. Which of the following should the incident response team perform to understand the crash and prevent it in the future?

A bank is working with a security architect to find the BEST solution to detect database management system compromises. The solution should meet the following requirements:

♦ Work at the application layer

♦ Send alerts on attacks from both privileged and malicious users

♦ Have a very low false positive

Which of the following should the architect recommend?

A forensic investigator would use the foremost command for:

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 healthcare system recently suffered from a ransomware incident As a result the board of directors decided to hire a security consultant to improve existing network security. The security consultant found that the healthcare network was completely flat, had no privileged access limits and had open RDP access to servers with personal health information. As the consultant builds the remediation plan, which of the following solutions would BEST solve these challenges? (Select THREE).

A company hosts a large amount of data in blob storage for its customers. The company recently had a number of issues with this data being prematurely deleted before the scheduled backup processes could be completed. The management team has asked the security architect for a recommendation that allows blobs to be deleted occasionally, but only after a successful backup. Which of the following solutions will BEST meet this requirement?

Users are reporting intermittent access issues with a new cloud application that was recently added to the network. Upon investigation, the security administrator notices the human resources department is able to run required queries with the new application, but the marketing department is unable to pull any needed reports on various resources using the new application. Which of the following MOST likely needs to be done to avoid this in the future?

Which of the following BEST sets expectation between the security team and business units within an organization?

A product development team has submitted code snippets for review prior to release.

INSTRUCTIONS

Analyze the code snippets, and then select one vulnerability, and one fix for each code snippet.

Code Snippet 1

Code Snippet 2

Vulnerability 1:

SQL injection

Cross-site request forgery

Server-side request forgery

Indirect object reference

Cross-site scripting

Fix 1:

Perform input sanitization of the userid field.

Perform output encoding of queryResponse,

Ensure usex:ia belongs to logged-in user.

Inspect URLS and disallow arbitrary requests.

Implement anti-forgery tokens.

Vulnerability 2

1) Denial of service

2) Command injection

3) SQL injection

4) Authorization bypass

5) Credentials passed via GET

Fix 2

A) Implement prepared statements and bind

variables.

B) Remove the serve_forever instruction.

C) Prevent the "authenticated" value from being overridden by a GET parameter.

D) HTTP POST should be used for sensitive parameters.

E) Perform input sanitization of the userid field.