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A company maintains an open-source application that is hosted on a public GitHub repository. While creating a new commit to the repository, an engineer uploaded their IAM access key and secret access key. The engineer reported the mistake to a manager, and the manager immediately disabled the access key.

The company needs to assess the impact of the exposed access key. A security engineer must recommend a solution that requires the least possible managerial overhead.

Which solution meets these requirements?

A.
Analyze an IAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) use report from IAM Trusted Advisor to see when the access key was last used.
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A.
Analyze an IAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) use report from IAM Trusted Advisor to see when the access key was last used.
B.
Analyze Amazon CloudWatch Logs for activity by searching for the access key.
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B.
Analyze Amazon CloudWatch Logs for activity by searching for the access key.
C.
Analyze VPC flow logs for activity by searching for the access key
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C.
Analyze VPC flow logs for activity by searching for the access key
D.
Analyze a credential report in IAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) to see when the access key was last used.
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D.
Analyze a credential report in IAM Identity and Access Management (IAM) to see when the access key was last used.
Suggested answer: A

Explanation:

To assess the impact of the exposed access key, the security engineer should recommend the following solution:

Analyze an IAM use report from AWS Trusted Advisor to see when the access key was last used. This allows the security engineer to use a tool that provides information about IAM entities and credentials in their account, and check if there was any unauthorized activity with the exposed access key.

asked 16/09/2024
Patrick Evelinton de Souza Borges
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