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An engineer wants to review the packet overviews of SNORT alerts. When printing the SNORT alerts, all the packet headers are included, and the file is too large to utilize. Which action is needed to correct this problem?
After a recent malware incident, the forensic investigator is gathering details to identify the breach and causes. The investigator has isolated the affected workstation. What is the next step that should be taken in this investigation?
According to GDPR, what should be done with data to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability?
An engineer received an alert of a zero-day vulnerability affecting desktop phones through which an attacker sends a crafted packet to a device, resets the credentials, makes the device unavailable, and allows a default
administrator account login. Which step should an engineer take after receiving this alert?
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Two types of clients are accessing the front ends and the core database that manages transactions, access control, and atomicity. What is the threat model for the SQL database?
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Rapid Threat Containment using Cisco Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) and ISE detects the threat of malware-infected 802.1x authenticated endpoints and places that endpoint into a quarantine VLAN using Adaptive Network Control policy. Which method was used to signal ISE to quarantine the endpoints?
Drag and drop the actions below the image onto the boxes in the image for the actions that should be taken during this playbook step. Not all options are used.
A malware outbreak is detected by the SIEM and is confirmed as a true positive. The incident response team follows the playbook to mitigate the threat. What is the first action for the incident response team?
An engineer is investigating several cases of increased incoming spam emails and suspicious emails from the HR and service departments. While checking the event sources, the website monitoring tool showed several web scraping alerts overnight. Which type of compromise is indicated?
A threat actor attacked an organization’s Active Directory server from a remote location, and in a thirty-minute timeframe, stole the password for the administrator account and attempted to access 3 company servers. The threat actor successfully accessed the first server that contained sales data, but no files were downloaded. A second server was also accessed that contained marketing information and 11 files were downloaded. When the threat actor accessed the third server that contained corporate financial data, the session was disconnected, and the administrator’s account was disabled. Which activity triggered the behavior analytics tool?
A new malware variant is discovered hidden in pirated software that is distributed on the Internet. Executives have asked for an organizational risk assessment. The security officer is given a list of all assets. According to NIST, which two elements are missing to calculate the risk assessment? (Choose two.)
An engineer implemented a SOAR workflow to detect and respond to incorrect login attempts and anomalous user behavior. Since the implementation, the security team has received dozens of false positive alerts and negative feedback from system administrators and privileged users. Several legitimate users were tagged as a threat and their accounts blocked, or credentials reset because of unexpected login times and incorrectly
typed credentials. How should the workflow be improved to resolve these issues?
Engineers are working to document, list, and discover all used applications within an organization. During the regular assessment of applications from the HR backup server, an engineer discovered an unknown application. The analysis showed that the application is communicating with external addresses on a non- secure, unencrypted channel. Information gathering revealed that the unknown application does not have an owner and is not being used by a business unit. What are the next two steps the engineers should take in this investigation? (Choose two.)
Employees report computer system crashes within the same week. An analyst is investigating one of the computers that crashed and discovers multiple shortcuts in the system’s startup folder. It appears that the shortcuts redirect users to malicious URLs. What is the next step the engineer should take to investigate this case?
An organization had an incident with the network availability during which devices unexpectedly malfunctioned. An engineer is investigating the incident and found that the memory pool buffer usage reached a peak before the malfunction. Which action should the engineer take to prevent this issue from reoccurring?
TESTED 20 Apr 2024
