An organization suffered many major attacks and lost critical information, such as employee records, and financial information. Therefore, the management decides to hire a threat analyst to extract the strategic threat intelligence that provides high-level information regarding current cyber-security posture, threats, details on the financial impact of various cyber-activities, and so on.Which of the following sources will help the analyst to collect the required intelligence?

Active campaigns, attacks on other organizations, data feeds from external third parties

Campaign reports, malware, incident reports, attack group reports, human intelligence

Human, social media, chat rooms

A team of threat intelligence analysts is performing threat analysis on malware, and each of them has come up with their own theory and evidence to support their theory on a given malware.Now, to identify the most consistent theory out of all the theories, which of the following analytic processes must threat intelligence manager use?

Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH)

Application decomposition and analysis (ADA)

Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH)

Bob, a threat analyst, works in an organization named TechTop. He was asked to collect intelligence to fulfil the needs and requirements of the Red Tam present within the organization.Which of the following are the needs of a RedTeam?

Intelligence on latest vulnerabilities, threat actors, and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

Intelligence related to increased attacks targeting a particular software or operating system vulnerability

Intelligence on latest vulnerabilities, threat actors, and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

Intelligence extracted latest attacks analysis on similar organizations, which includes details about latest threats and TTPs

Intelligence that reveals risks related to various strategic business decisions

Enrage Tech Company hired Enrique, a security analyst, for performing threat intelligence analysis. While performing data collection process, he used a counterintelligence mechanism where a recursive DNS server is employed to perform interserver DNS communication and when a request is generated from any name server to the recursive DNS server, the recursive DNS servers log the responses that are received. Then it replicates the logged data and stores the data in the central database. Using these logs, he analyzed the malicious attempts that took place over DNS infrastructure.Which of the following cyber counterintelligence (CCI) gathering technique has Enrique used for data collection?

Data collection through passive DNS monitoring

Data collection through DNS interrogation

Data collection through DNS zone transfer

Data collection through dynamic DNS (DDNS)

Jim works as a security analyst in a large multinational company. Recently, a group of hackers penetrated into their organizational network and used a data staging technique to collect sensitive data. They collected all sorts of sensitive data about the employees and customers, business tactics of the organization, financial information, network infrastructure information and so on.What should Jim do to detect the data staging before the hackers exfiltrate from the network?

Jim should monitor network traffic for malicious file transfers, file integrity monitoring, and event logs.

Jim should identify the attack at an initial stage by checking the content of the user agent field.

Jim should analyze malicious DNS requests, DNS payload, unspecified domains, and destination of DNS requests.

Jim should monitor network traffic for malicious file transfers, file integrity monitoring, and event logs.

Jim should identify the web shell running in the network by analyzing server access, error logs, suspicious strings indicating encoding, user agent strings, and so on.

A threat analyst obtains an intelligence related to a threat, where the data is sent in the form of a connection request from a remote host to the server. From this data, he obtains only the IP address of the source and destination but no contextual information. While processing this data, he obtains contextual information stating that multiple connection requests from different geo-locations are received by the server within a short time span, and as a result, the server is stressed and gradually its performance has reduced. He further performed analysis on the information based on the past and present experience and concludes the attack experienced by the client organization.Which of the following attacks is performed on the client organization?

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack

Steve works as an analyst in a UK-based firm. He was asked to perform network monitoring to find any evidence of compromise. During the network monitoring, he came to know that there are multiple logins from different locations in a short time span. Moreover, he also observed certain irregular log in patterns from locations where the organization does not have business relations. This resembles that somebody is trying to steal confidential information.Which of the following key indicators of compromise does this scenario present?

Unusual outbound network traffic

Unusual activity through privileged user account

Henry. a threat intelligence analyst at ABC Inc., is working on a threat intelligence program. He was assigned to work on establishing criteria for prioritization of intelligence needs and requirements.Which of the following considerations must be employed by Henry to prioritize intelligence requirements?

Understand frequency and impact of a threat

What is the correct sequence of steps involved in scheduling a threat intelligence program?1. Review the project charter2. Identify all deliverables3. Identify the sequence of activities4. Identify task dependencies5. Develop the final schedule6. Estimate duration of each activity7. Identify and estimate resources for all activities8. Define all activities9. Build a work breakdown structure (WBS)

1-->9-->2-->8-->3-->7-->4-->6-->5

3-->4-->5-->2-->1-->9-->8-->7-->6

1-->2-->3-->4-->5-->6-->9-->8-->7

Kim, an analyst, is looking for an intelligence-sharing platform to gather and share threat information from a variety of sources. He wants to use this information to develop security policies to enhance the overall security posture of his organization.Which of the following sharing platforms should be used by Kim?

Blueliv threat exchange network

During the process of threat intelligence analysis, John, a threat analyst, successfully extracted an indication of adversary's information, such as Modus operandi, tools, communication channels, and forensics evasion strategies used by adversaries.Identify the type of threat intelligence analysis is performed by John.

Tactical threat intelligence analysis

Operational threat intelligence analysis

Technical threat intelligence analysis

Strategic threat intelligence analysis

Tactical threat intelligence analysis

Joe works as a threat intelligence analyst with Xsecurity Inc. He is assessing the TI program by comparing the project results with the original objectives by reviewing project charter. He is also reviewing the list of expected deliverables to ensure that each of those is delivered to an acceptable level of quality.Identify the activity that Joe is performing to assess a TI program's success or failure.

Determining the fulfillment of stakeholders

Identifying areas of further improvement

Determining the costs and benefits associated with the program

Sam works as an analyst in an organization named InfoTech Security. He was asked to collect information from various threat intelligence sources. In meeting the deadline, he forgot to verify the threat intelligence sources and used data from an open-source data provider, who offered it at a very low cost. Through it was beneficial at the initial stage but relying on such data providers can produce unreliable data and noise putting the organization network into risk.What mistake Sam did that led to this situation?

Sam used unreliable intelligence sources.

Sam did not use the proper standardization formats for representing threat data.

Sam did not use the proper technology to use or consume the information.

Alice, an analyst, shared information with security operation managers and network operations center (NOC) staff for protecting the organizational resources against various threats. Information shared by Alice was highly technical and include threat actor TTPs, malware campaigns, tools used by threat actors, and so on.Which of the following types of threat intelligence was shared by Alice?

Operational threat intelligence

ABC is a well-established cyber-security company in the United States. The organization implemented the automation of tasks such as data enrichment and indicator aggregation. They also joined various communities to increase their knowledge about the emerging threats. However, the security teams can only detect and prevent identified threats in a reactive approach.Based on threat intelligence maturity model, identify the level of ABC to know the stage at which the organization stands with its security and vulnerabilities.

Level 2: increasing CTI capabilities

Sarah is a security operations center (SOC) analyst working at JW Williams and Sons organization based in Chicago. As a part of security operations, she contacts information providers (sharing partners) for gathering information such as collections of validated and prioritized threat indicators along with a detailed technical analysis of malware samples, botnets, DDoS attack methods, and various other malicious tools. She further used the collected information at the tactical and operational levels.Sarah obtained the required information from which of the following types of sharing partner?

Providers of comprehensive cyber-threat intelligence

Walter and Sons Company has faced major cyber attacks and lost confidential data. The company has decided to concentrate more on the security rather than other resources. Therefore, they hired Alice, a threat analyst, to perform data analysis. Alice was asked to perform qualitative data analysis to extract useful information from collected bulk data.Which of the following techniques will help Alice to perform qualitative data analysis?

Brainstorming, interviewing, SWOT analysis, Delphi technique, and so on

Regression analysis, variance analysis, and so on

Numerical calculations, statistical modeling, measurement, research, and so on.

Brainstorming, interviewing, SWOT analysis, Delphi technique, and so on

Finding links between data and discover threat-related information

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An analyst wants to disseminate the information effectively so that the consumers can acquire and benefit out of the intelligence.

Which of the following criteria must an analyst consider in order to make the intelligence concise, to the point, accurate, and easily understandable and must consist of a right balance between tables, narrative, numbers, graphics, and multimedia?

The right time

The right presentation

The right order

The right content

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