CompTIA CAS-004 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 26

Users are reporting intermittent access issues with a new cloud application that was recently added to the network. Upon investigation, the security administrator notices the human resources department is able to run required queries with the new application, but the marketing department is unable to pull any needed reports on various resources using the new application. Which of the following MOST likely needs to be done to avoid this in the future?

Which of the following processes involves searching and collecting evidence during an investigation or lawsuit?

Due to budget constraints, an organization created a policy that only permits vulnerabilities rated high and critical according to CVSS to be fixed or mitigated. A security analyst notices that many vulnerabilities that were previously scored as medium are now breaching higher thresholds. Upon further investigation, the analyst notices certain ratings are not aligned with the approved system categorization. Which of the following can the analyst do to get a better picture of the risk while adhering to the organization's policy?

A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that a company's current data disposal procedures could result in data remanence. The company uses only SSDs. Which of the following would be the MOST secure way to dispose of the SSDs given the CISO's concern?

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.

An analyst received a list of IOCs from a government agency. The attack has the following characteristics:

1- The attack starts with bulk phishing.

2- If a user clicks on the link, a dropper is downloaded to the computer.

3- Each of the malware samples has unique hashes tied to the user.

The analyst needs to identify whether existing endpoint controls are effective. Which of the following risk mitigation techniques should the analyst use?

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 company created an external, PHP-based web application for its customers. A security researcher reports that the application has the Heartbleed vulnerability. Which of the following would BEST resolve and mitigate the issue? (Select TWO).

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?