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A cybersecurity analyst is tasked with scanning a web application to understand where the scan will go and whether there are URIs that should be denied access prior to more in-depth scanning. Which of following best fits the type of scanning activity requested?
- A. Uncredentialed scan
- B. Discovery scan
- C. Vulnerability scan
- D. Credentialed scan
Which of the following best describes the process of requiring remediation of a known threat within a given time frame?
- A. SLA
- B. MOU
- C. Best-effort patching
- D. Organizational governance
Which of the following risk management principles is accomplished by purchasing cyber insurance?
- A. Accept
- B. Avoid
- C. Mitigate
- D. Transfer
A recent audit of the vulnerability management program outlined the finding for increased awareness of secure coding practices. Which of the following would be best to address the finding?
- A. Establish quarterly SDLC training on the top vulnerabilities for developers
- B. Conduct a yearly inspection of the code repositories and provide the report to management.
- C. Hire an external penetration test of the network
- D. Deploy more vulnerability scanners for increased coverage
An organization has deployed a cloud-based storage system for shared data that is in phase two of the data life cycle. Which of the following controls should the security team ensure are addressed? (Choose two.)
- A. Data classification
- B. Data destruction
- C. Data loss prevention
- D. Encryption
- E. Backups
- F. Access controls
An analyst is conducting routine vulnerability assessments on the company infrastructure. When performing these scans, a business-critical server crashes, and the cause is traced back to the vulnerability scanner. Which of the following is the cause of this issue?
- A. The scanner is running without an agent installed.
- B. The scanner is running in active mode.
- C. The scanner is segmented improperly
- D. The scanner is configured with a scanning window
An organization’s threat intelligence team notes a recent trend in adversary privilege escalation procedures. Multiple threat groups have been observed utilizing native Windows tools to bypass system controls and execute commands with privileged credentials. Which of the following controls would be most effective to reduce the rate of success of such attempts?
- A. Set user account control protection to the most restrictive level on all devices
- B. Implement MFA requirements for all internal resources
- C. Harden systems by disabling or removing unnecessary services
- D. Implement controls to block execution of untrusted applications
A new zero-day vulnerability was released. A security analyst is prioritizing which systems should receive deployment of compensating controls deployment first. The systems have been grouped into the categories shown below:
Which of the following groups should be prioritized for compensating controls?
- A. Group A
- B. Group B
- C. Group C
- D. Group D
A Chief Information Security Officer wants to map all the attack vectors that the company faces each day. Which of the following recommendations should the company align their security controls around?
- A. OSSTMM
- B. Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis
- C. OWASP
- D. MITRE ATT&CK
Which of the following actions would an analyst most likely perform after an incident has been investigated?
- A. Risk assessment
- B. Root cause analysis
- C. Incident response plan
- D. Tabletop exercise