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A company requires a task to be carried by more than one person concurrently. This is an example of:
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 e-commerce company is running a web server on premises, and the resource utilization is usually less than 30%. During the last two holiday seasons, the server experienced performance issues because of too many connections, and several customers were not able to finalize purchase orders. The company is looking to change the server configuration to avoid this kind of performance issue.
Which of the following is the MOST cost-effective solution?
Which of the following is the BEST disaster recovery solution when resources are running in a cloud environment?
A company wants to improve Its active protection capabilities against unknown and zero-day malware. Which of the following Is the MOST secure solution?
A user experiences an HTTPS connection error when trying to access an Internet banking website from a corporate laptop. The user then opens a browser on a mobile phone and is able to access the same Internet banking website without issue. Which of the following security configurations is MOST likely the cause of the error?
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 high-severity vulnerability was found on a web application and introduced to the enterprise. The vulnerability could allow an unauthorized user to utilize an open-source library to view privileged user information. The enterprise is unwilling to accept the risk, but the developers cannot fix the issue right away.
Which of the following should be implemented to reduce the risk to an acceptable level until the issue can be fixed?
A company is looking for a solution to hide data stored in databases. The solution must meet the following requirements:
Which of the following techniques should be used?
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 company has hired a security architect to address several service outages on the endpoints due to new malware. The Chief Executive Officer’s laptop was impacted while working from home. The goal is to prevent further endpoint disruption. The edge network is protected by a web proxy.
Which of the following solutions should the security architect recommend?
An organization decided to begin issuing corporate mobile device users microSD HSMs that must be installed in the mobile devices in order to access corporate resources remotely. Which of the following features of these devices MOST likely led to this decision? (Select TWO.)
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) is developing corrective-action plans based on the following from a vulnerability scan of internal hosts:
Which of the following MOST appropriate corrective action to document for this finding?
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?
Given the following log snippet from a web server:
Which of the following BEST describes this type of attack?
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 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 security auditor needs to review the manner in which an entertainment device operates. The auditor is analyzing the output of a port scanning tool to determine the next steps in the security review. Given the following log output.
The best option for the auditor to use NEXT is:
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) has launched to create a rebuts BCP/DR plan for the entire company. As part of the initiative , the security team must gather data supporting s operational importance for the applications used by the business and determine the order in which the application must be back online. Which of the following be the FIRST step taken by the team?
A company launched a new service and created a landing page within its website network for users to access the service. Per company policy, all websites must utilize encryption for any authentication pages. A junior network administrator proceeded to use an outdated procedure to order new certificates. Afterward, customers are reporting the following error when accessing a new web page: NET:ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID. Which of the following BEST describes what the administrator should do NEXT?
A business stores personal client data of individuals residing in the EU in order to process requests for mortgage loan approvals.
Which of the following does the business’s IT manager need to consider?
Which of the following technologies allows CSPs to add encryption across multiple data storages?
A company just released a new video card. Due to limited supply and nigh 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?
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?
The Chief information Officer (CIO) of a large bank, which uses multiple third-party organizations to deliver a service, is concerned about the handling and security of customer data by the parties. Which of the following should be implemented to BEST manage the risk?
A security architect was asked to modify an existing internal network design to accommodate the following requirements for RDP:
• Enforce MFA for RDP
• Ensure RDP connections are only allowed with secure ciphers.
The existing network is extremely complex and not well segmented. Because of these limitations, the company has requested that the connections not be restricted by network-level firewalls Of ACLs.
Which of the following should the security architect recommend to meet these requirements?
An organization’s existing infrastructure includes site-to-site VPNs between datacenters. In the past year, a sophisticated attacker exploited a zero-day vulnerability on the VPN concentrator. Consequently,
the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is making infrastructure changes to mitigate the risk of service loss should another zero-day exploit be used against the VPN solution.
Which of the following designs would be BEST for the CISO to use?
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?
Which of the following agreements includes no penalties and can be signed by two entities that are working together toward the same goal?
A security analyst discovered that the company's WAF was not properly configured. The main web server was breached, and the following payload was found in one of the malicious requests:
Which of the following would BEST mitigate this vulnerability?
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.)
TESTED 03 Oct 2022