CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) Exam Questions and Answers
A company Invested a total of $10 million lor a new storage solution Installed across live on-site datacenters. Fitly percent of the cost of this Investment was for solid-state storage. Due to the high rate of wear on this storage, the company Is estimating that 5% will need to be replaced per year. Which of the following is the ALE due to storage replacement?
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?
Which of the following BEST sets expectation between the security team and business units within an organization?
A financial services company wants to migrate its email services from on-premises servers to a cloud-based email solution. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) must brief board of directors on the potential security concerns related to this migration. The board is concerned about the following.
* Transactions being required by unauthorized individual
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attacker using email to distribute malware and ransom ware.
* Exfiltration of sensitivity company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide an6-malware, reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the board’s concerns for this email migration?
A cybersecurity analyst created the following tables to help determine the maximum budget amount the business can justify spending on an improved email filtering system:
Which of the following meets the budget needs of the business?
An organization is establishing a new software assurance program to vet applications before they are introduced into the production environment, Unfortunately. many Of the applications are provided only as compiled binaries. Which Of the following should the organization use to analyze these applications? (Select TWO).
A security consultant needs to protect a network of electrical relays that are used for monitoring and controlling the energy used in a manufacturing facility.
Which of the following systems should the consultant review before making a recommendation?
The Chief information Officer (CIO) wants to implement enterprise mobility throughout the organization. The goal is to allow employees access to company resources. However the CIO wants the ability to enforce configuration settings, manage data, and manage both company-owned and personal devices. Which of the following should the CIO implement to achieve this goal?
Due to adverse events, a medium-sized corporation suffered a major operational disruption that caused its servers to crash and experience a major power outage. Which of the following should be created to prevent this type of issue in the future?
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?
An organization is researching the automation capabilities for systems within an OT network. A security analyst wants to assist with creating secure coding practices and would like to learn about the programming languages used on the PLCs. Which of the following programming languages is the MOST relevant for PLCs?
A networking team was asked to provide secure remote access to all company employees. The team decided to use client-to-site VPN as a solution. During a discussion, the Chief Information Security Officer raised a security concern and asked the networking team to route the Internet traffic of remote users through the main office infrastructure. Doing this would prevent remote users from accessing the Internet through their local networks while connected to the VPN.
Which of the following solutions does this describe?
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 observes the following while looking through network traffic in a company's cloud log:
Which of the following steps should the security analyst take FIRST?
An attacker infiltrated the code base of a hardware manufacturer and inserted malware before the code was compiled. The malicious code is now running at the hardware level across a number of industries and sectors. Which of the following categories BEST describes this type of vendor risk?
A systems administrator is preparing to run a vulnerability scan on a set of information systems in the organization. The systems administrator wants to ensure that the targeted systems produce accurate information especially regarding configuration settings.
Which of the following scan types will provide the systems administrator with the MOST accurate information?
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 company in the financial sector receives a substantial number of customer transaction requests via email. While doing a root-cause analysis conceding a security breach, the CIRT correlates an unusual spike in port 80 traffic from the IP address of a desktop used by a customer relations employee who has access to several of the compromised accounts. Subsequent antivirus scans of the device do not return an findings, but the CIRT finds undocumented services running on the device. Which of the following controls would reduce the discovery time for similar in the future.
A threat analyst notices the following URL while going through the HTTP logs.
Which of the following attack types is the threat analyst seeing?
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).
As part of the customer registration process to access a new bank account, customers are required to upload a number of documents, including their passports and driver’s licenses. The process also requires customers to take a current photo of themselves to be compared against provided documentation.
Which of the following BEST describes this process?
A developer wants to develop a secure external-facing web application. The developer is looking for an online community that produces tools, methodologies, articles, and documentation in the field of
web-application security Which of the following is the BEST option?
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 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.
A company requires a task to be carried by more than one person concurrently. This is an example of:
A software company wants to build a platform by integrating with another company's established product. Which of the following provisions would be MOST important to include when drafting an agreement between the two companies?
A help desk technician just informed the security department that a user downloaded a suspicious file from internet explorer last night. The user confirmed accessing all the files and folders before going home from work. the next morning, the user was no longer able to boot the system and was presented a screen with a phone number. The technician then tries to boot the computer using wake-on-LAN, but the system would not come up. which of the following explains why the computer would not boot?
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 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 company that uses AD is migrating services from LDAP to secure LDAP. During the pilot phase, services are not connecting properly to secure LDAP. Block is an except of output from the troubleshooting session:
Which of the following BEST explains why secure LDAP is not working? (Select TWO.)
A security analyst is validating the MAC policy on a set of Android devices. The policy was written to ensure non-critical applications are unable to access certain resources. When reviewing dmesg, the analyst notes many entries such as:
Despite the deny message, this action was still permit following is the MOST likely fix for this issue?
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?
An HVAC contractor requested network connectivity permission to remotely support/troubleshoot equipment issues at a company location. Currently, the company does not have a process that allows vendors remote access to the corporate network Which of the following solutions represents the BEST course of action to allow the contractor access?
In a shared responsibility model for PaaS, which of the following is a customer's responsibility?
A security consultant has been asked to recommend a secure network design that would:
• Permit an existing OPC server to communicate with a new Modbus server that is controlling electrical relays.
• Limit operational disruptions.
Due to the limitations within the Modbus protocol, which of the following configurations should the security engineer recommend as part of the solution?
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?
The CI/CD pipeline requires code to have close to zero defects and zero vulnerabilities. The current process for any code releases into production uses two-week Agile sprints. Which of the following would BEST meet the requirement?
Which of the following is a risk associated with SDN?
A new, online file hosting service is being offered. The service has the following security requirements:
• Threats to customer data integrity and availability should be remediated first.
• The environment should be dynamic to match increasing customer demands.
• The solution should not interfere with customers" ability to access their data at anytime.
• Security analysts should focus on high-risk items.
Which of the following would BEST satisfy the requirements?
Some end users of an e-commerce website are reporting a delay when browsing pages. The website uses TLS 1.2. A security architect for the website troubleshoots by connecting from home to the
website and capturing tramc via Wire-shark. The security architect finds that the issue is the time required to validate the certificate. Which of the following solutions should the security architect
recommend?
An organization is moving its intellectual property data from on premises to a CSP and wants to secure the data from theft. Which of the following can be used to mitigate this risk?
A 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).
An organization is running its e-commerce site in the cloud. The capacity is sufficient to meet the organization's needs throughout most of the year, except during the holidays when the organization plans to introduce a new line of products and expects an increase in traffic. The organization is not sure how well its products will be received. To address this issue, the organization needs to ensure that:
* System capacity is optimized.
* Cost is reduced.
Which of the following should be implemented to address these requirements? (Select TWO).
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).
Which of the following BEST describes a common use case for homomorphic encryption ?
Which of the following objectives BEST supports leveraging tabletop exercises in business continuity planning?
A software company is developing an application in which data must be encrypted with a cipher that requires the following:
* Initialization vector
* Low latency
* Suitable for streaming
Which of the following ciphers should the company use?
A security architect updated the security policy to require a proper way to verify that packets received between two parties have not been tampered with and the connection remains private. Which of the following cryptographic techniques can be used to ensure the security policy is being enforced properly?
A client is adding scope to a project. Which of the following processes should be used when requesting updates or corrections to the client's systems?
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 third-party organization has implemented a system that allows it to analyze customers' data and deliver analysis results without being able to see the raw data. Which of the following is the organization implementing?
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?
Which of the following should be established when configuring a mobile device to protect user internet privacy, to ensure the connection is encrypted, and to keep user activity hidden? (Select TWO).
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).
The Chief Security Officer (CSO) requested the security team implement technical controls that meet the following requirements:
* Monitors traffic to and from both local NAS and cloud-based file repositories
* Prevents on-site staff who are accessing sensitive customer Pll documents on file repositories from accidentally or deliberately sharing sensitive documents on personal Saa$S solutions
* Uses document attributes to reduce false positives
* Is agentless and not installed on staff desktops or laptops
Which of the following when installed and configured would BEST meet the CSO's requirements? (Select TWO).
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 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?
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 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?
An administrator at a software development company would like to protect the integrity of the company's applications with digital signatures. The developers report that the signing process keeps failing on all applications. The same key pair used for signing, however, is working properly on the website, is valid, and is issued by a trusted CA. Which of the following is MOST likely the cause of the
signature failing?
An organization established an agreement with a partner company for specialized help desk services. A senior security officer within the organization Is tasked with providing documentation required to set up a dedicated VPN between the two entities. Which of the following should be required?
A 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:
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?
Which of the following testing plans is used to discuss disaster recovery scenarios with representatives from multiple departments within an incident response team but without taking any invasive actions?
A security architect recommends replacing the company’s monolithic software application with a containerized solution. Historically, secrets have been stored in the application's configuration files. Which of the following changes should the security architect make in the new system?
A security 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).
Due to internal resource constraints, the management team has asked the principal security architect to recommend a solution that shifts most of the responsibility for application-level controls to the cloud provider. In the shared responsibility model, which of the following levels of service meets this requirement?
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 Chief Information Officer is considering migrating all company data to the cloud to save money on expensive SAN storage.
Which of the following is a security concern that will MOST likely need to be addressed during migration?
In preparation for the holiday season, a company redesigned the system that manages retail sales and moved it to a cloud service provider. The new infrastructure did not meet the company’s availability requirements. During a postmortem analysis, the following issues were highlighted:
1. International users reported latency when images on the web page were initially loading.
2. During times of report processing, users reported issues with inventory when attempting to place orders.
3. Despite the fact that ten new API servers were added, the load across servers was heavy at peak times.
Which of the following infrastructure design changes would be BEST for the organization to implement to avoid these issues in the future?
A developer wants to maintain integrity to each module of a program and ensure the code cannot be altered by malicious users.
Which of the following would be BEST for the developer to perform? (Choose two.)
A shipping company that is trying to eliminate entire classes of threats is developing an SELinux policy to ensure its custom Android devices are used exclusively for package tracking.
After compiling and implementing the policy, in which of the following modes must the company ensure the devices are configured to run?
An organization is preparing to migrate its production environment systems from an on-premises environment to a cloud service. The lead security architect is concerned that the organization's current methods for addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud environment.
Which of the following BEST describes the reason why traditional methods of addressing risk may not be possible in the cloud?
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?
A company is preparing to deploy a global service.
Which of the following must the company do to ensure GDPR compliance? (Choose two.)
A company is looking to fortify its cybersecurity defenses and is focusing on its network infrastructure. The solution cannot affect the availability of the company’s services to ensure false positives do not drop legitimate traffic.
Which of the following would satisfy the requirement?
A security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times.
Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?
A security engineer needs to implement a solution to increase the security posture of user endpoints by providing more visibility and control over local administrator accounts. The endpoint security team is overwhelmed with alerts and wants a solution that has minimal operational burdens. Additionally, the solution must maintain a positive user experience after implementation.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to meet these objectives?
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 university issues badges through a homegrown identity management system to all staff and students. Each week during the summer, temporary summer school students arrive and need to be issued a badge to access minimal campus resources. The security team received a report from an outside auditor indicating the homegrown system is not consistent with best practices in the security field and leaves the institution vulnerable.
Which of the following should the security team recommend FIRST?
A company publishes several APIs for customers and is required to use keys to segregate customer data sets.
Which of the following would be BEST to use to store customer keys?
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 concerned that a malicious piece of code was downloaded on a Linux system. After some research, the analyst determines that the suspected piece of code is performing a lot of input/output (I/O) on the disk drive.
Based on the output above, from which of the following process IDs can the analyst begin an investigation?
A company plans to build an entirely remote workforce that utilizes a cloud-based infrastructure. The Chief Information Security Officer asks the security engineer to design connectivity to meet the following requirements:
Only users with corporate-owned devices can directly access servers hosted by the cloud provider.
The company can control what SaaS applications each individual user can access.
User browser activity can be monitored.
Which of the following solutions would BEST meet these requirements?
A company is implementing SSL inspection. During the next six months, multiple web applications that will be separated out with subdomains will be deployed.
Which of the following will allow the inspection of the data without multiple certificate deployments?
A 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?
An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports.
Which of the following historian server locations will allow the business to get the required reports in an ОТ and IT environment?
A security analyst 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?
An organization wants to perform a scan of all its systems against best practice security configurations.
Which of the following SCAP standards, when combined, will enable the organization to view each of the configuration checks in a machine-readable checklist format for fill automation? (Choose two.)
Which of the following are risks associated with vendor lock-in? (Choose two.)
A company’s SOC has received threat intelligence about an active campaign utilizing a specific vulnerability. The company would like to determine whether it is vulnerable to this active campaign.
Which of the following should the company use to make this determination?
Which of the following allows computation and analysis of data within a ciphertext without knowledge of the plaintext?
An organization is considering a BYOD standard to support remote working. The first iteration of the solution will utilize only approved collaboration applications and the ability to move corporate data between those applications. The security team has concerns about the following:
Unstructured data being exfiltrated after an employee leaves the organization
Data being exfiltrated as a result of compromised credentials
Sensitive information in emails being exfiltrated
Which of the following solutions should the security team implement to mitigate the risk of data loss?
A security analyst is reviewing the following output:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this type of attack?
An organization recently started processing, transmitting, and storing its customers’ credit card information. Within a week of doing so, the organization suffered a massive breach that resulted in the exposure of the customers’ information.
Which of the following provides the BEST guidance for protecting such information while it is at rest and in transit?
A 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?
Which of the following terms refers to the delivery of encryption keys to a CASB or a third-party entity?
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?
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?
A technician is reviewing the logs and notices a large number of files were transferred to remote sites over the course of three months. This activity then stopped. The files were transferred via TLS-protected HTTP sessions from systems that do not send traffic to those sites.
The technician will define this threat as:
A 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 penetration tester inputs the following command:
This command will allow the penetration tester to establish a:
A security architect is working with a new customer to find a vulnerability assessment solution that meets the following requirements:
• Fast scanning
• The least false positives possible
• Signature-based
• A low impact on servers when performing a scan
In addition, the customer has several screened subnets, VLANs, and branch offices. Which of the following will best meet the customer's needs?
A large organization is planning to migrate from on premises to the cloud. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned about security responsibilities. If the company decides to migrate to the cloud, which of the following describes who is responsible for the security of the new physical datacenter?
A company is in the process of refreshing its entire infrastructure The company has a business-critical process running on an old 2008 Windows server If this server fails, the company would lose millions of dollars in revenue. Which of the following actions should the company should take?
An ISP is receiving reports from a portion of its customers who state that typosquatting is occurring when they type in a portion of the URL for the ISP's website. The reports state that customers are being directed to an advertisement website that is asking for personal information. The security team has verified the DNS system is returning proper results and has no known lOCs. Which of the following should the security team implement to best mitigate this situation?
The principal security analyst for a global manufacturer is investigating a security incident related to abnormal behavior in the ICS network. A controller was restarted as part of the troubleshooting process, and the following issue was identified when the controller was restarted:
During the investigation, this modified firmware version was identified on several other controllers at the site. The official vendor firmware versions do not have this checksum. Which of the following stages of the MITRE ATT&CK framework for ICS includes this technique?
An organization does not have visibility into when company-owned assets are off network or not connected via a VPN. The lack of visibility prevents the organization from meeting security and operational objectives. Which of the following cloud-hosted solutions should the organization implement to help mitigate the risk?
A security administrator wants to enable a feature that would prevent a compromised encryption key from being used to decrypt all the VPN traffic. Which of the following should the security administrator use?
A company with multiple locations has taken a cloud-only approach to its infrastructure The company does not have standard vendors or systems resulting in a mix of various solutions put in place by each location The Chief Information Security Officer wants to ensure that the internal security team has visibility into all platforms Which of the following best meets this objective?
A SaaS startup is maturing its DevSecOps program and wants to identify weaknesses earlier in the development process in order to reduce the average time to identify serverless application vulnerabilities and the costs associated with remediation The startup began its early security testing efforts with DAST to cover public-facing application components and recently implemented a bug bounty program Which of the following will BEST accomplish the company's objectives?
A network security engineer is designing a three-tier web architecture that will allow a third-party vendor to perform the following audit functions within the organization's cloud environment
• Review communication between all infrastructure endpoints
• Identify unauthorized and malicious data patterns
• Perform automated, risk-mitigating configuration changes
Which of the following should the network security engineer include in the design to address these requirements?
An employee's device was missing for 96 hours before being reported. The employee called the help desk to ask for another device Which of the following phases of the incident response cycle needs improvement?
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 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 software developer created an application for a large, multinational company. The company is concerned the program code could be reverse engineered by a foreign entity and intellectual property would be lost. Which of the following techniques should be used to prevent this situation?
Signed applications reduce risks by:
A mobile application developer is creating a global, highly scalable, secure chat application. The developer would like to ensure the application is not susceptible to on-path attacks while the user is traveling in potentially hostile regions. Which of the following would BEST achieve that goal?
A new requirement for legislators has forced a government security team to develop a validation process to verify the integrity of a downloaded file and the sender of the file Which of the following is the BEST way for the security team to comply with this requirement?
A security engineer is trying to identify instances of a vulnerability in an internally developed line of business software. The software is hosted at the company's internal data center. Although a standard vulnerability definition does not exist, the identification and remediation results should be tracked in the company's vulnerability management system. Which of the following should the engineer use to identify this vulnerability?
An organization is designing a MAC scheme (or critical servers running GNU/Linux. The security engineer is investigating SELinux but is confused about how to read labeling contexts. The engineer executes the command stat ./secretfile and receives the following output:
Which of the following describes the correct order of labels shown in the output above?
Which of the following is a security concern for DNP3?
A hospital has fallen behind with patching known vulnerabilities due to concerns that patches may cause disruptions in the availability of data and impact patient care. The hospital does not have a tracking solution in place to audit whether systems have been updated or to track the length of time between notification of the weakness and patch completion Since tracking is not in place the hospital lacks accountability with regard to who is responsible for these activities and the timeline of patching efforts. Which of the following should the hospital do first to mitigate this risk?
During a network defense engagement, a red team is able to edit the following registry key:
Which of the following tools is the red team using to perform this action?
A security administrator needs to implement a security solution that will
• Limit the attack surface in case of an incident
• Improve access control for external and internal network security.
• Improve performance with less congestion on network traffic
Which of the following should the security administrator do?
An internal security assessor identified large gaps in a company's IT asset inventory system during a monthly asset review. The assessor is aware of an external audit that is underway. In an effort to avoid external findings, the assessor chooses not to report the gaps in the inventory system. Which of the following legal considerations is the assessor directly violating?
A user forwarded a suspicious email to a security analyst for review. The analyst examined the email and found that neither the URL nor the attachment showed any indication of malicious activities. Which of the following intelligence collection methods should the analyst use to confirm the legitimacy of the email?
A network administrator who manages a Linux web server notices the following traffic:
/etc./shadow
Which of the following Is the BEST action for the network administrator to take to defend against this type of web attack?
Application owners are reporting performance issues with traffic using port 1433 from the cloud environment. A security administrator has various pcap files to analyze the data between the related source and destination servers. Which of the following tools should be used to help troubleshoot the issue?
A company wants to use a process to embed a sign of ownership covertly inside a proprietary document without adding any identifying attributes. Which of the following would be best to use as part of the process to support copyright protections of the document?
A 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 small bank is evaluating different methods to address and resolve the following requirements
" Must be able to store credit card data using the smallest amount of data possible
• Must be compliant with PCI DSS
• Must maintain confidentiality if one piece of the layer is compromised
Which of the following is the best solution for the bank?