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An organization is developing an authentication service for use at the entry and exit ports of country borders. The service will use data feeds obtained from passport systems, passenger manifests, and high-definition video feeds from CCTV systems that are located at the ports. The service will incorporate machine-earning techniques to eliminate biometric enrollment processes while still allowing authorities to identify passengers with increasing accuracy over time. The more frequently passengers travel, the more accurately the service will identify them. Which of the following biometrics will MOST likely be used, without the need for enrollment? (Choose two.)

gait, facial

A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture. Which of the follwould BEST assist the company?

MSSP

An organization's help desk is flooded with phone calls from users stating they can no longer access certain websites. The help desk escalates the issue to the security team, as these websites were accessible the previous day. The security analysts run the following command: ipconfig /flushdns, but the issue persists. Finally, an analyst changes the DNS server for an impacted machine, and the issue goes away. Which of the following attacks MOST likely occurred on the original DNS server?

DNS cache poisoning

A cybersecurity manager has scheduled biannual meetings with the IT team and department leaders to discuss how they would respond to hypothetical cyberattacks. During these meetings, the manager presents a scenario and injects additional information throughout the session to replicate what might occur in a dynamic cybersecurity event involving the company, its facilities, its data, and its staff. Which of the following describes what the manager is doing?

Conducting a tabletop exercise

A RAT that was used to compromise an organization's banking credentials was found on a user's computer. The RAT evaded antivirus detection. It was installed by a user who has local administrator rights to the system as part of a remote management tool set. Which of the following recommendations would BEST prevent this from reoccurring?

Enforce application whitelisting

A security analyst is reviewing a new website that will soon be made publicly available. The analyst sees the following in the URL: http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=77276554&loc=us The analyst then sends an internal user a link to the new website for testing purposes, and when the user clicks the link, the analyst is able to browse the website with the following URL: http://dev-site.comptia.org/home/show.php?sessionID=98988475&loc=us Which of the following application attacks is being tested?

Cross-site request forgery

A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization. Which of the following control types is an IDS?

Detective

Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

SLA

A startup company is using multiple SaaS and IaaS platforms to stand up a corporate infrastructure and build out a customer-facing web application. Which of the following solutions would be BEST to provide security, manageability, and visibility into the platform?

CASB

A root cause analysis reveals that a web application outage was caused by one of the company's developers uploading a newer version of the third-party libraries that were shared among several applications. Which of the following implementations would be BEST to prevent the issue from reoccurring?

Containerization

A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server. Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicious?

Nmap

A company has drafted and insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices. Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?

Obfuscation

To secure an application after a large data breach, an e-commerce site will be resetting all users’ credentials. Which of the following will BEST ensure the site’s users are not compromised after the reset?

Encrypted credentials in transit

In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

Transference

An organization has implemented a policy requiring the use of conductive metal lockboxes for personal electronic devices outside of a secure research lab. Which of the following did the organization determine to be the GREATEST risk to intellectual property when creating this policy?

Data exfiltration over a mobile hotspot

A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory. Which of the following is the analyst doing?A security analyst is using a recently released security advisory to review historical logs, looking for the specific activity that was outlined in the advisory. Which of the following is the analyst doing?

Threat hunting

Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Perfect forward secrecy

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) needs to create a policy set that meets international standards for data privacy and sharing. Which of the following should the CISO read and understand before writing the policies?

GDPR

The IT department at a university is concerned about professors placing servers on the university network in an attempt to bypass security controls. Which of the following BEST represents this type of threat?

Shadow IT

A commercial cyber-threat intelligence organization observes loCs across a variety of unrelated customers. Prior to releasing specific threat intelligence to other paid subscribers, the organization is MOST likely obligated by contracts to:

Anonymize any PII that is observed within the loC data.

While checking logs, a security engineer notices a number of end users suddenly downloading files with the .tar.gz extension. Closer examination of the files reveals they are PE32 files. The end users state they did not initiate any of the downloads. Further investigation reveals the end users all clicked on an external email containing an infected MHT file with an href link a week prior. Which of the following is MOST likely occurring?

A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools

An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data. Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

Disaster recovery

Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

A university with remote campuses, which all use different service providers, loses Internet connectivity across all locations. After a few minutes, Internet and Vol services are restored, only to go offline again at random intervals, typically within four minutes of services being restored. Outages continue throughout the day, impacting all inbound and outbound connections and services. Services that are limited to the local LAN or WiFi network are not impacted, but all WAN and VoIP services are affected. Later that day, the edge-router manufacturer releases a CVE outlining the ability of an attacker to exploit the SIP protocol handling on devices, leading to resource exhaustion and system reloads. which of the following BEST describes this type of attack? (choose two)

DoS, Race condition

A company recently set up an e-commerce portal to sell its product online. The company wants to start accepting credit cards for payment, which requires compliance with a security standard. Which of the following standards must the company comply with before accepting credit cards on its e-commerce platform?

PCI DSS

Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

Zero-day

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of an insurance company received an email from Ann, the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), requesting a transfer of $10,000 to an account. The email states Ann is on vacation and has lost her purse, containing cash and credit cards. Which of the following social- engineering techniques is the attacker using?

Whaling

An organization wants to implement a third factor to an existing multifactor authentication. The organization already uses a smart card and password. Which of the following would meet the organization's needs for a third factor?

Fingerprints

An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets. As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?

Chain of custody

A company wants to deploy PKI on its Internet-facing website. The applications that are currently deployed are: -www.company.com (main website) - contactus. company.com (for locating a nearby location) - quotes. company.com (for requesting a price quote) The company wants to purchase one SSL certificate that will work for all the existing applications and any future applications that follow the same naming conventions, such as store.company.com. Which of the following certificate types would BEST meet the requirements?

Wildcard

A Chief Security Officer (CSO) is concerned about the amount of PlI that is stored locally on each salesperson's laptop. The sales department has a higher-than-average rate of lost equipment. Which of the following recommendations would BEST address the CSO's concern?

Implement managed FDE

A user contacts the help desk to report the following: - Two days ago, a pop-up browser window prompted the user for a name and password after connecting to the corporate wireless SID. This had never happened before, but the user entered the information as requested. - The user was able to access the Internet but had trouble accessing the department share until the next day. - The user is now getting notifications from the bank about unauthorized transactions. Which of the following attack vectors was MOST likely used in this scenario?

Evil Twin

A host was infected with malware. During the incident response, Joe, a user, reported that he did not receive any emails with links, but he had been browsing the Internet all day. Which of the following would MOST likely show where the malware originated?

The DNS logs

A recently discovered zero-day exploit utilizes an unknown vulnerability in the SMB network protocol to rapidly infect computers. Once infected, computers are encrypted and held for ransom. Which of the following would BEST prevent this attack from reoccurring?

Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports

Joe, an employee, receives an email stating he won the lottery. The email includes a link that requests a name, mobile phone number, address, and date of birth be provided to confirm Joe's identity before sending him the prize. Which of the following BEST describes this type of email?

Phishing

Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Shadow IT

A manufacturer creates designs for very high security products that are required to be protected and controlled by the government regulations. These designs are not accessible by corporate networks or the Internet. Which of the following is the BEST solution to protect these designs?

An air gap

A company processes highly sensitive data and senior management wants to protect the sensitive data by utilizing classification labels. Which of the following access control schemes would be BEST for the company to implement?

Mandatory

Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company's IT/security operations?

Seperation of duties

Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hotspots?

Footprinting

Which of the following will MOST likely adversely impact the operations of unpatched traditional programmable-logic controllers, running a back-end LAMP server and OT systems with human-management interfaces that are accessible over the Internet via a web interface? (Choose two.)

Weak encryption, Server-side request forgery

A company recently transitioned to a strictly BYOD culture due to the cost of replacing lost or damaged corporate-owned mobile devices. Which of the following technologies would be BEST to balance the BYOD culture while also protecting the company's data?

Containerization

A Chief Security Office's (CSO's) key priorities are to improve preparation, response, and recovery practices to minimize system downtime and enhance organizational resilience to ransomware attacks. Which of the following would BEST meet the CSO's objectives?

Implement application whitelisting and centralized event-log management, and perform regular testing and validation of full backups

A network engineer has been asked to investigate why several wireless barcode scanners and wireless computers in a warehouse have intermittent connectivity to the shipping server. The barcode scanners and computers are all on forklift trucks and move around the warehouse during their regular use. Which of the following should the engineer do to determine the issue? (Choose two.)

Perform a site survey, Create a heat map

A security administrator suspects an employee has been emailing proprietary information to a competitor. Company policy requires the administrator to capture an exact copy of the employee's hard disk. Which of the following should the administrator use?

Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

SSAE SOC 2

Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company's staff. Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

Extract mail exchanger records in the DNS

On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

Value and volatility of data, Right-to-audit clauses

Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

Containment

A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team. Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data

A network engineer needs to build a solution that will allow guests at the company's headquarters to access the Internet via WiFi. This solution should not allow access to the internal corporate network, but it should require guests to sign off on the acceptable use policy before accessing the Internet. Which of the following should the engineer employ to meet these requirements?

Installed a captive portal

An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft. Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

SED

A security analyst receives a SIEM alert that someone logged in to the appadmin test account, which is only used for the early detection of attacks. The security analyst then reviews the following application log: ... [03/06/20xx:17:20:18] system 127.0.0.1 FindXFath»//User[Username/text().'foo' or 7-7 or "o'='o' And Password/textu'bar*) [03/06/20x2:17:21:18] appaamin 194.20.114.102 action:login result: success [03/06/20xx:17:22:18] appadmin 194.29.114.102 action:open.account (12345) result: fail [03/06/20xx:17:23:10) appadmin 194.28.114.102 action:open.account (23456) result:fail [03/06/20xx:17:23:161 appadmin 194.28.114.102 action:open.account (23456) result: fail [03/06/20xx:17:23:18) appadmin 194.28.114.102 action:open.account (45678) result: fail Which of the following can the security analyst conclude?

An injection attack is being conducted against a user authentication system

In which of the following situations would be BEST to use a detective control type for mitigation?

A company purchased an IPS system, but after reviewing the requirements, the appliance was supposed to monitor, not block, any traffic

The IT department's on-site developer has been with the team for many years. Each time an application is released, the security team is able to identify multiple vulnerabilities. Which of the following would BEST help the team ensure the application is ready to be released to production?

Submit the application to QA before releasing it

A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users' passwords. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

SAML

An analyst needs to identify the applications a user was running and the files that were open before the user's computer was shut off by holding down the power button. Which of the following would MOST likely contain that information?

Pagefile

A remote user recently took a two-week vacation abroad and brought along a corporate-owned laptop. Upon returning to work, the user has been unable to connect the laptop to the VPN. Which of the following is the MOST likely reason for the user's inability to connect the laptop to the VPN?

Due to foreign travel, the user's laptop was isolated from the network.

An organization needs to implement more stringent controls over administrator/root credentials and service accounts. Requirements for the project include: - Check-in/checkout of credentials - The ability to use but not know the password - Automated password changes - Logging of access to credentials Which of the following solutions would meet the requirements?

A privileged access management system

Several employees return to work the day after attending an industry trade show. That same day, the security manager notices several malware alerts coming from each of the employee's workstations. The security manager investigates but finds no signs of an attack on the perimeter firewall or the NIDS. Which of the following is MOST likely causing the malware alerts?

A worm that has propagated itself across the intranet, which was initiated by presentation media

After reading a security bulletin, a network security manager is concerned that a malicious actor may have breached the network using the same software flaw. The exploit code is publicly available and has been reported as being used against other industries in the same vertical. Which of the following should the network security manager consult FIRST to determine a priority list for forensic review?

The vulnerability scan output

A financial organization has adopted a new secure, encrypted document-sharing application to help with its customer loan process. Some important PII needs to be shared across this new platform, but it is getting blocked by the DLP systems. Which of the following actions will BEST allow the PlI to be shared with the secure application without compromising the organization's security posture?

Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PlI

An auditor is performing an assessment of a security appliance with an embedded OS that was vulnerable during the last two assessments. Which of the following BEST explains the appliance's vulnerable state?

The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance

A company's bank has reported that multiple corporate credit cards have been stolen over the past several weeks. The bank has provided the names of the affected cardholders to the company's forensics team to assist in the cyber-incident investigation. An incident responder learns the following information: - The timeline of stolen card numbers corresponds closely with affected users making Internet-based purchases from diverse websites via enterprise desktop PCs. - All purchase connections were encrypted, and the company uses an SSL inspection proxy for the inspection of encrypted traffic of the hardwired network. - Purchases made with corporate cards over the corporate guest WiFi network, where no SSL inspection occurs, were unaffected. Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?

The SSL inspection proxy is feeding events to a compromised SIEM

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Spraying

Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

IaaS

A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime. Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

Dual power supply, Off-site backups

A researcher has been analyzing large data sets for the last ten months. The researcher works with colleagues from other institutions and typically connects via SSH to retrieve additional data. Historically, this setup has worked without issue, but the researcher recently started getting the following message: WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is SHA256:cBqYja1 67cV3 EIJHUSKtjiVzignVd4Ca+1fhrM6+k4. Please contact your syatem administrator. RSA host key for 16.231.33.78 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. Which of the following network attacks is the researcher MOST likely experiencing?

Man-in-the-middle

A network administrator has been alerted that web pages are experiencing long load times. After determining it is not a routing or DNS issue, the administrator logs in to the router, runs a command, and receives the following output: CPU 0 percent busy, from 300 sec ago 1 sec ave: 99 percent busy 5 sec ave: 97 percent busy 1 min ave: 83 percent busy Which of the following is the router experiencing?

Resources exhaustion

A company provides mobile devices to its users to permit access to email and enterprise applications. The company recently started allowing users to select from several different vendors and device models. When configuring the MDM, which of the following is a key security implication of this heterogeneous device approach?

Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to address the delta between device vendors.

A pharmaceutical sales representative logs on to a laptop and connects to the public WiFi to check emails and update reports. Which of the following would be BEST to prevent other devices on the network from directly accessing the laptop? (Choose two.)

A VPN, A host-based firewall

A company is implementing MFA for all applications that store sensitive data. The IT manager wants MFA to be non-disruptive and user friendly. Which of the following technologies should the IT manager use when implementing MFA?

Push notifications

The CSIRT is reviewing the lessons learned from a recent incident. A worm was able to spread unhindered throughout the network and infect a large number of computers and servers. Which of the following recommendations would be BEST to mitigate the impacts of a similar incident in the future?

Segment the network with firewalls.

A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices. Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

Mobile device management

A development team employs a practice of bringing all the code changes from multiple team members into the same development project through automation. A tool is utilized to validate the code and track source code through version control. Which of the following BEST describes this process?

Continuous integration

A cybersecurity administrator needs to add disk redundancy for a critical server. The solution must have a two-drive failure for better fault tolerance. Which of the following RAID levels should the administrator select?

Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

The document is a honeyfile and is meant to attract the attention of a cyberintruder.

A security administrator has generated an SSH key pair to authenticate to a new server. Which of the following should the security administrator do NEXT to use the keys securely for authentication? Choose 2

Install the public key on the server, Encrypt the private key

A company has just experienced a malware attack affecting a large number of desktop users. The antivirus solution was not able to block the malware, but the HIDS alerted to C2 calls as 'Troj.Generic' Once the security team found a solution to remove the malware, they were able to remove the malware files successfully, and the HIDS stopped alerting. The next morning, however, the HIDS once again started alerting on the same desktops, and the security team discovered the files were back. Which of the following BEST describes the type of malware infecting this company's network?

Trojan

An organization wants to host an externally accessible web server that will not contain sensitive user information. Any sensitive information will be hosted on file servers. Which of the following is the BEST architecture configuration for this organization?

Host the web server in a DMZ and the file servers behind a firewall

Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside a guest OS?

VM escape

A company posts a sign indicating its server room is under video surveillance. Which of the following control types is represented?

Deterrent

A security administrator has received multiple calls from the help desk about customers who are unable to access the organization's web server. Upon reviewing the log files. the security administrator determines multiple open requests have been made from multiple IP addresses, which is consuming system resources. Which of the following attack types does this BEST describe?

DDoS

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A junior systems administrator noticed that one of two hard drives in a server room had a red error notification. The administrator removed the hard drive to replace it but was unaware that the server was configured in an array. Which of the following configurations would ensure no data is lost?

RAID 1

A system in the network is used to store proprietary secrets and needs the highest level of security possible. Which of the following should a security administrator implement to ensure the system cannot be reached from the Internet?

Air gap

Which of the following is the BEST use of a WAF?

To protect sites on web servers that are publicly accessible

A transitive trust:

is automatically established between parent and a child

A systems administrator wants to disable the use of usernames and passwords for SSH authentication and enforce key-based authentication. Which of the following should the administrator do NEXT to enforce this new configuration?

Change the default SSH port. enable TCP tunneling. and provide a pre-configured SSH client.

Which of the following would MOST likely be a result of improperly configured user accounts?

Privilege escalation

An organization is concerned about video emissions from users' desktops. Which of the following is the BEST solution to implement?

Screen filters

A security administrator receives alerts from the perimeter UTM. Upon checking the logs, the administrator finds the following output: Time: 12/25 0300 From Zone: Untrust To Zone: DMZ Attacker: externalip.com Victim: 172.16.0.20 To Port: 80 Actions: Alert Severity: Critical When examining the PCAP associated with the event, the security administrator finds the following information: <script> alert ("Click here for important information regarding your account! http://externalip.com/account.php"); </script> Which of the following actions should the security administrator take?

Implement a host-based firewall rule to block future events of this type from occurring.

Which of the following encryption algorithms require one encryption key? (choose two)

3DES, RC4

A company moved into a new building next to a sugar mill. Cracks have been discovered in the walls of the server room, which is located on the same side as the sugar mill loading docks. The cracks are believed to have been caused by heavy trucks. Moisture has begun to seep into the server room, causing extreme humidification problems and equipment failure. Which of the following BEST describes the type of threat the organization faces?

Foundational

Which of the following should a technician use to protect a cellular phone that is needed for an investigation, to ensure the data will not be removed remotely?

Faraday cage

Which of the following is the MOST likely motivation for a script kiddie threat actor?

Notoriety

Moving laterally within a network once an initial exploit is used to gain persistent access for the purpose of establishing further control of a system is known as:

pivoting

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An organization discovers that unauthorized applications have been installed on company-provided mobile phones. The organization issues these devices, but some users have managed to bypass the security controls. Which of the following is the MOST likely issue, and how can the organization BEST prevent this from happening?

Some advanced users are jailbreaking the OS and bypassing the controls. Implement an MDM solution to control access to company resources.

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gait, facial

A small company that does not have security staff wants to improve its security posture. Which of the follwould BEST assist the company?

MSSP

DNS cache poisoning

Conducting a tabletop exercise

Enforce application whitelisting

Cross-site request forgery

A network administrator has been asked to install an IDS to improve the security posture of an organization. Which of the following control types is an IDS?

Detective

Which of the following should be put in place when negotiating with new vendor about the timeliness of the response to a significant outage or incident?

SLA

CASB

Containerization

A security administrator suspects there may be unnecessary services running on a server. Which of the following tools will the administrator MOST likely use to confirm the suspicious?

Nmap

A company has drafted and insider-threat policy that prohibits the use of external storage devices. Which of the following would BEST protect the company from data exfiltration via removable media?

Blocking removable-media devices and write capabilities using a host-based security tool

In which of the following common use cases would steganography be employed?

Obfuscation

Encrypted credentials in transit

In which of the following risk management strategies would cybersecurity insurance be used?

Transference

Data exfiltration over a mobile hotspot

Threat hunting

Which of the following would MOST likely support the integrity of a voting machine?

Perfect forward secrecy

GDPR

Shadow IT

Anonymize any PII that is observed within the loC data.

A RAT was installed and is transferring additional exploit tools

An organization is developing a plan in the event of a complete loss of critical systems and data. Which of the following plans is the organization MOST likely developing?

Disaster recovery

Which of the following is the purpose of a risk register?

To identify the risk, the risk owner, and the risk measures

DoS, Race condition

PCI DSS

Which of the following BEST describes a security exploit for which a vendor patch is not readily available?

Zero-day

Whaling

Fingerprints

Chain of custody

Wildcard

Implement managed FDE

Evil Twin

The DNS logs

Configure the perimeter firewall to deny inbound external connections to SMB ports

Phishing

Which of the following refers to applications and systems that are used within an organization without consent or approval?

Shadow IT

An air gap

Mandatory

Which of the following policies would help an organization identify and mitigate potential single points of failure in the company's IT/security operations?

Seperation of duties

Which of the following would be the BEST method for creating a detailed diagram of wireless access points and hotspots?

Footprinting

Weak encryption, Server-side request forgery

Containerization

Implement application whitelisting and centralized event-log management, and perform regular testing and validation of full backups

Perform a site survey, Create a heat map

Which of the following is MOST likely to outline the roles and responsibilities of data controllers and data processors?

SSAE SOC 2

Phishing and spear-phishing attacks have been occurring more frequently against a company's staff. Which of the following would MOST likely help mitigate this issue?

Extract mail exchanger records in the DNS

On which of the following is the live acquisition of data for forensic analysis MOST dependent? (Choose two.)

Value and volatility of data, Right-to-audit clauses

Which of the following incident response steps involves actions to protect critical systems while maintaining business operations?

Containment

A security auditor is reviewing vulnerability scan data provided by an internal security team. Which of the following BEST indicates that valid credentials were used?

The scan enumerated software versions of installed programs

Which of the following BEST explains the difference between a data owner and a data custodian?

The data owner is responsible for determining how the data may be used, while the data custodian is responsible for implementing the protection to the data

Installed a captive portal

An organization with a low tolerance for user inconvenience wants to protect laptop hard drives against loss or data theft. Which of the following would be the MOST acceptable?

SED

An injection attack is being conducted against a user authentication system

In which of the following situations would be BEST to use a detective control type for mitigation?

A company purchased an IPS system, but after reviewing the requirements, the appliance was supposed to monitor, not block, any traffic

Submit the application to QA before releasing it

A cybersecurity analyst needs to implement secure authentication to third-party websites without users' passwords. Which of the following would be the BEST way to achieve this objective?

SAML

Pagefile

Due to foreign travel, the user's laptop was isolated from the network.

A privileged access management system

A worm that has propagated itself across the intranet, which was initiated by presentation media

The vulnerability scan output

Configure the DLP policies to whitelist this application with the specific PlI

The vendor has not supplied a patch for the appliance

The SSL inspection proxy is feeding events to a compromised SIEM

Look at image

Spraying

Which of the following cloud models provides clients with servers, storage, and networks but nothing else?

IaaS

A network administrator needs to build out a new datacenter, with a focus on resiliency and uptime. Which of the following would BEST meet this objective? (Choose two.)

Dual power supply, Off-site backups

Man-in-the-middle

Resources exhaustion

Certain devices are inherently less secure than others, so compensatory controls will be needed to address the delta between device vendors.

A VPN, A host-based firewall

Push notifications

Segment the network with firewalls.

A company is adopting a BYOD policy and is looking for a comprehensive solution to protect company information on user devices. Which of the following solutions would BEST support the policy?

Mobile device management

Continuous integration

Which of the following BEST explains the reason why a server administrator would place a document named password.txt on the desktop of an administrator account on a server?

The document is a honeyfile and is meant to attract the attention of a cyberintruder.

Install the public key on the server, Encrypt the private key

Trojan

Host the web server in a DMZ and the file servers behind a firewall

Which of the following describes the ability of code to target a hypervisor from inside a guest OS?

VM escape

A company posts a sign indicating its server room is under video surveillance. Which of the following control types is represented?

Deterrent

DDoS

Look at image

RAID 1

Air gap

Which of the following is the BEST use of a WAF?

To protect sites on web servers that are publicly accessible

A transitive trust:

is automatically established between parent and a child

Change the default SSH port. enable TCP tunneling. and provide a pre-configured SSH client.

Which of the following would MOST likely be a result of improperly configured user accounts?

Privilege escalation

An organization is concerned about video emissions from users' desktops. Which of the following is the BEST solution to implement?

Screen filters

Implement a host-based firewall rule to block future events of this type from occurring.

Which of the following encryption algorithms require one encryption key? (choose two)

3DES, RC4

Foundational

Which of the following should a technician use to protect a cellular phone that is needed for an investigation, to ensure the data will not be removed remotely?

Faraday cage

Which of the following is the MOST likely motivation for a script kiddie threat actor?

Notoriety

Moving laterally within a network once an initial exploit is used to gain persistent access for the purpose of establishing further control of a system is known as:

pivoting

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Some advanced users are jailbreaking the OS and bypassing the controls. Implement an MDM solution to control access to company resources.