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An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports. Which of the follow

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Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?

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A new web server must comply with new secure-by-design principles and PCI DSS. This includes mitigating the risk of an on-path attack. A security analyst is reviewing the following web server config

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A security analyst notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity: Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?

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A technician is reviewing the logs and notices a large number of files were transferred to remote sites over the course of three months. This activity then stopped. The files were transferred via TL

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A security engineer thinks the development team has been hard-coding sensitive environment variables in its code. Which of the following would BEST secure the company's CI/CD pipeline?

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A small company recently developed prototype technology for a military program. The company's security engineer is concerned about potential theft of the newly developed, proprietary information. W

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A security engineer has been asked to close all non-secure connections from the corporate network. The engineer is attempting to understand why the corporate UTM will not allow users to download ema

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A security analyst is reviewing network connectivity on a Linux workstation and examining the active TCP connections using the command line. Which of the following commands would be the BEST to run

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A company hired a third party to develop software as part of its strategy to be quicker to market. The company's policy outlines the following requirements: https://i.postimg.cc/8P9sB3zx/image.png

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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?

Due to locality and budget constraints, an organization's satellite office has a lower bandwidth allocation than other offices in the organization. As a result, the local security infrastructure staff is assessing architectural options that will help preserve network bandwidth and increase speed to both internal and external resources while not sacrificing threat visibility. Which of the following would be the BEST option to implement?

An loT device implements an encryption module built within its SoC where the asymmetric private key has been defined in a write-once read-many portion of the SoC hardware Which of the following should the loT manufacture do if the private key is compromised?

Ransomware encrypted the entire human resources fileshare for a large financial institution. Security operations personnel were unaware of the activity until it was too late to stop it. The restoration will take approximately four hours, and the last backup occurred 48 hours ago. The management team has indicated that the RPO for a disaster recovery event for this data classification is 24 hours. Based on RPO requirements, which of the following recommendations should the management team make?

A global organization's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has been asked to analyze the risks involved in a plan to move the organization's current MPLS-based WAN network to use commodity Internet and SD-WAN hardware. The SD-WAN provider is currently highly regarded but Is a regional provider. Which of the following is MOST likely identified as a potential risk by the CISO?

A security analyst is concerned that a malicious piece of code was downloaded on a Linux system. After some research, the analyst determines that the suspected piece of code is performing a lot of input/output (I/O) on the disk drive. Based on the output above, from which of the following process IDs can the analyst begin an investigation?

An organization is designing a network architecture that must meet the following requirements: Users will only be able to access predefined services. Each user will have a unique allow list defined for access. The system will construct one-to-one subject/object access paths dynamically. Which of the following architectural designs should the organization use to meet these requirements?

in a situation where the cost of anti-malware exceeds the potential loss from a malware threat, which of the following is the most cost-effective risk response?

A security officer is requiring all personnel working on a special project to obtain a security clearance requisite with the level of all information being accessed Data on this network must be protected at the same level of each clearance holder The need to know must be vended by the data owner Which of the following should the security officer do to meet these requirements?

An internal security assessor identified large gaps in a company's IT asset inventory system during a monthly asset review. The assessor is aware of an external audit that is underway. In an effort to avoid external findings, the assessor chooses not to report the gaps in the inventory system. Which of the following legal considerations is the assessor directly violating?

Question 146 - CAS-004 discussion

A security analyst detected a malicious PowerShell attack on a single server. The malware used the Invoke-Expression function to execute an external malicious script. The security analyst scanned the disk with an antivirus application and did not find any IOCs. The security analyst now needs to deploy a protection solution against this type of malware.

Which of the following BEST describes the type of malware the solution should protect against?