CompTIA CAS-004 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 36

A security engineer performed an assessment on a recently deployed web application. The engineer was able to exfiltration a company report by visiting the following URL:

www.intranet.abc.com/get-files.jsp?file=report.pdf

Which of the following mitigation techniques would be BEST for the security engineer to recommend?

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: www.rcalicious.com

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?

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 security architect for a large, multinational manufacturer needs to design and implement a security solution to monitor traffic.

When designing the solution, which of the following threats should the security architect focus on to prevent attacks against the network?

A vulnerability assessment endpoint generated a report of the latest findings. A security analyst needs to review the report and create a priority list of items that must be addressed. Which of the following should the analyst use to create the list quickly?

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 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 major broadcasting company that requires continuous availability to streaming content needs to be resilient against DDoS attacks Which of the following is the MOST important infrastructure security design element to prevent an outage?

A company wants to improve the security of its web applications that are running on in-house servers A risk assessment has been performed and the following capabilities are desired:

• Terminate SSL connections at a central location

• Manage both authentication and authorization for incoming and outgoing web service calls

• Advertise the web service API

• Implement DLP and anti-malware features

Which of the following technologies will be the BEST option?