A security analyst has created an image of a drive from an incident. Which of the following describes what the analyst should do NEXT?

A. The analyst should create a backup of the drive and then hash the drive.

B. The analyst should begin analyzing the image and begin to report findings.

C. The analyst should create a hash of the image and compare it to the original drive’s hash.

D. The analyst should create a chain of custody document and notify stakeholders.

A security analyst received a compromised workstation. The workstation's hard drive may contain evidence of criminal activities. Which of the following is the
FIRST thing the analyst must do to ensure the integrity of the hard drive while performing the analysis?

A. Make a copy of the hard drive.

B. Use write blockers.

C. Run rm “”R command to create a hash.

D. Install it on a different machine and explore the content.

An organization has recently recovered from an incident where a managed switch had been accessed and reconfigured without authorization by an insider. The incident response team is working on developing a lessons learned report with recommendations. Which of the following recommendations will BEST prevent the same attack from occurring in the future?

A. Remove and replace the managed switch with an unmanaged one.

B. Implement a separate logical network segment for management interfaces.

C. Install and configure NAC services to allow only authorized devices to connect to the network.

D. Analyze normal behavior on the network and configure the IDS to alert on deviations from normal.

A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing the current BYOD security posture. The users must be able to synchronize their calendars, email, and contacts to a smartphone or other personal device. The recommendation must provide the most flexibility to users. Which of the following recommendations would meet both the mobile data protection efforts and the business requirements described in this scenario?

A. Develop a minimum security baseline while restricting the type of data that can be accessed.

B. Implement a single computer configured with USB access and monitored by sensors.

C. Deploy a kiosk for synchronizing while using an access list of approved users.

D. Implement a wireless network configured for mobile device access and monitored by sensors.

A system administrator who was using an account with elevated privileges deleted a large amount of log files generated by a virtual hypervisor in order to free up disk space. These log files are needed by the security team to analyze the health of the virtual machines. Which of the following compensating controls would help prevent this from reoccurring? (Choose two.)

A. Succession planning

B. Separation of duties

C. Mandatory vacation

D. Personnel training

E. Job rotation

After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security analyst has determined a group from a high-risk country is responsible for a sophisticated breach of the company network and continuous administration of targeted attacks for the past three months. Until now, the attacks went unnoticed.
This is an example of:

A. privilege escalation.

B. advanced persistent threat.

C. malicious insider threat.

D. spear phishing.

Which of the following BEST describes the offensive participants in a tabletop exercise?

A. Red team

B. Blue team

C. System administrators

D. Security analysts

E. Operations team

HOTSPOT -
A security analyst suspects that a workstation may be beaconing to a command and control server. Inspect the logs from the company's web proxy server and the firewall to determine the best course of action to take in order to neutralize the threat with minimum impact to the organization.
Instructions:
Modify the firewall ACL, using the Firewall ACL form to mitigate the issue.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please select the Reset All button.
 
 
Hot Area:
 

DRAG DROP -
You suspect that multiple unrelated security events have occurred on several nodes on a corporate network. You must review all logs and correlate events when necessary to discover each security event by clicking on each node. Only select corrective actions if the logs shown a security event that needs remediation. Drag and drop the appropriate corrective actions to mitigate the specific security event occurring on each affected device.
Instructions:
The Web Server, Database Server, IDS, Development PC, Accounting PC and Marketing PC are clickable. Some actions may not be required and each actions can only be used once per node. The corrective action order is not important. If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please select the Reset button. When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit. Once the simulation is submitted, please select the
Next button to continue.
 
Select and Place:
 

A security analyst is adding input to the incident response communication plan. A company officer has suggested that if a data breach occurs, only affected parties should be notified to keep an incident from becoming a media headline. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to the company officer?

A. The first responder should contact law enforcement upon confirmation of a security incident in order for a forensics team to preserve chain of custody.

B. Guidance from laws and regulations should be considered when deciding who must be notified in order to avoid fines and judgements from non-compliance.

C. An externally hosted website should be prepared in advance to ensure that when an incident occurs victims have timely access to notifications from a non- compromised recourse.

D. The HR department should have information security personnel who are involved in the investigation of the incident sign non-disclosure agreements so the company cannot be held liable for customer data that might be viewed during an investigation.

SIMULATION -
The developers recently deployed new code to three web servers. A daily automated external device scan report shows server vulnerabilities that are failing items according to PCI DSS.
If the vulnerability is not valid, the analyst must take the proper steps to get the scan clean.
If the vulnerability is valid, the analyst must remediate the finding.
After reviewing the information provided in the network diagram, select the STEP 2 tab to complete the simulation by selecting the correct Validation Result and
Remediation Action for each server listed using the drop-down options.
Instructions -
STEP 1: Review the information provided in the network diagram.
STEP 2: Given the scenario, determine which remediation action is required to address the vulnerability.
If at any time you would like to bring back the initial state of the simulation, please select the Reset All button.
 
 
 
 
 
 

An organization is requesting the development of a disaster recovery plan. The organization has grown and so has its infrastructure. Documentation, policies, and procedures do not exist. Which of the following steps should be taken to assist in the development of the disaster recovery plan?

A. Conduct a risk assessment.

B. Develop a data retention policy.

C. Execute vulnerability scanning.

D. Identify assets.

A cybersecurity professional typed in a URL and discovered the admin panel for the e-commerce application is accessible over the open web with the default password. Which of the following is the MOST secure solution to remediate this vulnerability?

A. Rename the URL to a more obscure name, whitelist all corporate IP blocks, and require two-factor authentication.

B. Change the default password, whitelist specific source IP addresses, and require two-factor authentication.

C. Whitelist all corporate IP blocks, require an alphanumeric passphrase for the default password, and require two-factor authentication.

D. Change the username and default password, whitelist specific source IP addresses, and require two-factor authentication.

A vulnerability scan has returned the following information:
 
Which of the following describes the meaning of these results?

A. There is an unknown bug in a Lotus server with no Bugtraq ID.

B. Connecting to the host using a null session allows enumeration of share names.

C. Trend Micro has a known exploit that must be resolved or patched.

D. No CVE is present, so it is a false positive caused by Lotus running on a Windows server.

An analyst has initiated an assessment of an organization's security posture. As a part of this review, the analyst would like to determine how much information about the organization is exposed externally. Which of the following techniques would BEST help the analyst accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)

A. Fingerprinting

B. DNS query log reviews

C. Banner grabbing

D. Internet searches

E. Intranet portal reviews

F. Sourcing social network sites

G. Technical control audits

A cybersecurity analyst is currently investigating a server outage. The analyst has discovered the following value was entered for the username: 0xbfff601a. Which of the following attacks may be occurring?

A. Buffer overflow attack

B. Man-in-the-middle attack

C. Smurf attack

D. Format string attack

E. Denial of service attack

File integrity monitoring states the following files have been changed without a written request or approved change. The following change has been made: chmod 777 ""Rv /usr
Which of the following may be occurring?

A. The ownership pf /usr has been changed to the current user.

B. Administrative functions have been locked from users.

C. Administrative commands have been made world readable/writable.

D. The ownership of/usr has been changed to the root user.

An incident response report indicates a virus was introduced through a remote host that was connected to corporate resources. A cybersecurity analyst has been asked for a recommendation to solve this issue. Which of the following should be applied?

A. MAC

B. TAP

C. NAC

D. ACL

A system administrator recently deployed and verified the installation of a critical patch issued by the company's primary OS vendor. This patch was supposed to remedy a vulnerability that would allow an adversary to remotely execute code from over the network. However, the administrator just ran a vulnerability assessment of networked systems, and each of them still reported having the same vulnerability. Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation for this?

A. The administrator entered the wrong IP range for the assessment.

B. The administrator did not wait long enough after applying the patch to run the assessment.

C. The patch did not remediate the vulnerability.

D. The vulnerability assessment returned false positives.

Due to new regulations, a company has decided to institute an organizational vulnerability management program and assign the function to the security team.
Which of the following frameworks would BEST support the program? (Choose two.)

A. COBIT

B. NIST

C. ISO 27000 series

D. ITIL

E. OWASP

A reverse engineer was analyzing malware found on a retailer's network and found code extracting track data in memory. Which of the following threats did the engineer MOST likely uncover?

A. POS malware

B. Rootkit

C. Key logger

D. Ransomware

A company that is hiring a penetration tester wants to exclude social engineering from the list of authorized activities. Which of the following documents should include these details?

A. Acceptable use policy

B. Service level agreement

C. Rules of engagement

D. Memorandum of understanding

E. Master service agreement

A cybersecurity analyst has several SIEM event logs to review for possible APT activity. The analyst was given several items that include lists of indicators for both
IP addresses and domains. Which of the following actions is the BEST approach for the analyst to perform?

A. Use the IP addresses to search through the event logs.

B. Analyze the trends of the events while manually reviewing to see if any of the indicators match.

C. Create an advanced query that includes all of the indicators, and review any of the matches.

D. Scan for vulnerabilities with exploits known to have been used by an APT.

A cybersecurity analyst has received the laptop of a user who recently left the company. The analyst types "˜history' into the prompt, and sees this line of code in the latest bash history:
 
This concerns the analyst because this subnet should not be known to users within the company. Which of the following describes what this code has done on the network?

A. Performed a ping sweep of the Class C network.

B. Performed a half open SYB scan on the network.

C. Sent 255 ping packets to each host on the network.

D. Sequentially sent an ICMP echo reply to the Class C network.

A recent vulnerability scan found four vulnerabilities on an organization's public Internet-facing IP addresses. Prioritizing in order to reduce the risk of a breach to the organization, which of the following should be remediated FIRST?

A. A cipher that is known to be cryptographically weak.

B. A website using a self-signed SSL certificate.

C. A buffer overflow that allows remote code execution.

D. An HTTP response that reveals an internal IP address.

A company has recently launched a new billing invoice website for a few key vendors. The cybersecurity analyst is receiving calls that the website is performing slowly and the pages sometimes time out. The analyst notices the website is receiving millions of requests, causing the service to become unavailable. Which of the following can be implemented to maintain the availability of the website?

A. VPN

B. Honeypot

C. Whitelisting

D. DMZ

E. MAC filtering

A security professional is analyzing the results of a network utilization report. The report includes the following information:
 
Which of the following servers needs further investigation?

A. hr.dbprod.01

B. R&D.file.srvr.01

C. mrktg.file.srvr.02

D. web.srvr.03

An analyst was tasked with providing recommendations of technologies that are PKI X.509 compliant for a variety of secure functions. Which of the following technologies meet the compatibility requirement? (Choose three.)

A. 3DES

B. AES

C. IDEA

D. PKCS

E. PGP

F. SSL/TLS

G. TEMPEST

Law enforcement has contacted a corporation's legal counsel because correlated data from a breach shows the organization as the common denominator from all indicators of compromise. An employee overhears the conversation between legal counsel and law enforcement, and then posts a comment about it on social media. The media then starts contacting other employees about the breach. Which of the following steps should be taken to prevent further disclosure of information about the breach?

A. Perform security awareness training about incident communication.

B. Request all employees verbally commit to an NDA about the breach.

C. Temporarily disable employee access to social media

D. Have law enforcement meet with employees.

A company wants to update its acceptable use policy (AUP) to ensure it relates to the newly implemented password standard, which requires sponsored authentication of guest wireless devices. Which of the following is MOST likely to be incorporated in the AUP?

A. Sponsored guest passwords must be at least ten characters in length and contain a symbol.

B. The corporate network should have a wireless infrastructure that uses open authentication standards.

C. Guests using the wireless network should provide valid identification when registering their wireless devices.

D. The network should authenticate all guest users using 802.1x backed by a RADIUS or LDAP server.

A software assurance lab is performing a dynamic assessment on an application by automatically generating and inputting different, random data sets to attempt to cause an error/failure condition. Which of the following software assessment capabilities is the lab performing AND during which phase of the SDLC should this occur? (Choose two.)

A. Fuzzing

B. Behavior modeling

C. Static code analysis

D. Prototyping phase

E. Requirements phase

F. Planning phase

An analyst wants to use a command line tool to identify open ports and running services on a host along with the application that is associated with those services and port. Which of the following should the analyst use?

A. Wireshark

B. Qualys

C. netstat

D. nmap

E. ping

A security analyst is reviewing the following log after enabling key-based authentication.
 
Given the above information, which of the following steps should be performed NEXT to secure the system?

A. Disable anonymous SSH logins.

B. Disable password authentication for SSH.

C. Disable SSHv1.

D. Disable remote root SSH logins.

An administrator has been investigating the way in which an actor had been exfiltrating confidential data from a web server to a foreign host. After a thorough forensic review, the administrator determined the server's BIOS had been modified by rootkit installation. After removing the rootkit and flashing the BIOS to a known good state, which of the following would BEST protect against future adversary access to the BIOS, in case another rootkit is installed?

A. Anti-malware application

B. Host-based IDS

C. TPM data sealing

D. File integrity monitoring

Review the following results:
 
Which of the following has occurred?

A. This is normal network traffic.

B. 123.120.110.212 is infected with a Trojan.

C. 172.29.0.109 is infected with a worm.

D. 172.29.0.109 is infected with a Trojan.

A cybersecurity analyst is retained by a firm for an open investigation. Upon arrival, the cybersecurity analyst reviews several security logs.
Given the following snippet of code:
 
Which of the following combinations BEST describes the situation and recommendations to be made for this situation?

A. The cybersecurity analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 using Windows Task Scheduler at 13:30 to runnc.exe; recommend proceeding with the next step of removing the host from the network.

B. The cybersecurity analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 to be running thenc.exe file at 13:30 using the auto cron job remotely, there are no recommendations since this is not a threat currently.

C. The cybersecurity analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 is beaconing every day at 13:30 using thenc.exe file; recommend proceeding with the next step of removing the host from the network.

D. The security analyst has discovered host 192.168.0.101 is a rogue device on the network, recommend proceeding with the next step of removing the host from the network.

A security analyst is creating baseline system images to remediate vulnerabilities found in different operating systems. Each image needs to be scanned before it is deployed. The security analyst must ensure the configurations match industry standard benchmarks and the process can be repeated frequently. Which of the following vulnerability options would BEST create the process requirements?

A. Utilizing an operating system SCAP plugin

B. Utilizing an authorized credential scan

C. Utilizing a non-credential scan

D. Utilizing a known malware plugin

A cybersecurity analyst has received an alert that well-known "call home" messages are continuously observed by network sensors at the network boundary. The proxy firewall successfully drops the messages. After determining the alert was a true positive, which of the following represents the MOST likely cause?

A. Attackers are running reconnaissance on company resources.

B. An outside command and control system is attempting to reach an infected system.

C. An insider is trying to exfiltrate information to a remote network.

D. Malware is running on a company system.

A threat intelligence feed has posted an alert stating there is a critical vulnerability in the kernel. Unfortunately, the company's asset inventory is not current. Which of the following techniques would a cybersecurity analyst perform to find all affected servers within an organization?

A. A manual log review from data sent to syslog

B. An OS fingerprinting scan across all hosts

C. A packet capture of data traversing the server network

D. A service discovery scan on the network

Which of the following items represents a document that includes detailed information on when an incident was detected, how impactful the incident was, and how it was remediated, in addition to incident response effectiveness and any identified gaps needing improvement?

A. Forensic analysis report

B. Chain of custody report

C. Trends analysis report

D. Lessons learned report

A cybersecurity analyst is completing an organization's vulnerability report and wants it to reflect assets accurately. Which of the following items should be in the report?

A. Processor utilization

B. Virtual hosts

C. Organizational governance

D. Log disposition

E. Asset isolation

An analyst finds that unpatched servers have undetected vulnerabilities because the vulnerability scanner does not have the latest set of signatures. Management directed the security team to have personnel update the scanners with the latest signatures at least 24 hours before conducting any scans, but the outcome is unchanged. Which of the following is the BEST logical control to address the failure?

A. Configure a script to automatically update the scanning tool.

B. Manually validate that the existing update is being performed.

C. Test vulnerability remediation in a sandbox before deploying.

D. Configure vulnerability scans to run in credentialed mode.

An analyst is observing unusual network traffic from a workstation. The workstation is communicating with a known malicious site over an encrypted tunnel. A full antivirus scan with an updated antivirus signature file does not show any sign of infection. Which of the following has occurred on the workstation?

A. Zero-day attack

B. Known malware attack

C. Session hijack

D. Cookie stealing

A system administrator has reviewed the following output:
 
Which of the following can a system administrator infer from the above output?

A. The company email server is running a non-standard port.

B. The company email server has been compromised.

C. The company is running a vulnerable SSH server.

D. The company web server has been compromised.

A university wants to increase the security posture of its network by implementing vulnerability scans of both centrally managed and student/employee laptops.
The solution should be able to scale, provide minimum false positives and high accuracy of results, and be centrally managed through an enterprise console.
Which of the following scanning topologies is BEST suited for this environment?

A. A passive scanning engine located at the core of the network infrastructure

B. A combination of cloud-based and server-based scanning engines

C. A combination of server-based and agent-based scanning engines

D. An active scanning engine installed on the enterprise console

An analyst has received unusual alerts on the SIEM dashboard. The analyst wants to get payloads that the hackers are sending toward the target systems without impacting the business operation. Which of the following should the analyst implement?

A. Honeypot

B. Jump box

C. Sandboxing

D. Virtualization

Which of the following remediation strategies are MOST effective in reducing the risk of a network-based compromise of embedded ICS? (Choose two.)

A. Patching

B. NIDS

C. Segmentation

D. Disabling unused services

E. Firewalling

The new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is seeking recommendations for network monitoring services for the local intranet. The CTO would like the capability to monitor all traffic to and from the gateway, as well as the capability to block certain content. Which of the following recommendations would meet the needs of the organization?

A. Recommend setup of IP filtering on both the internal and external interfaces of the gateway router.

B. Recommend installation of an IDS on the internal interface and a firewall on the external interface of the gateway router.

C. Recommend installation of a firewall on the internal interface and a NIDS on the external interface of the gateway router.

D. Recommend installation of an IPS on both the internal and external interfaces of the gateway router.

After reviewing the following packet, a cybersecurity analyst has discovered an unauthorized service is running on a company's computer.
 
Which of the following ACLs, if implemented, will prevent further access ONLY to the unauthorized service and will not impact other services?

A. DENY TCP ANY HOST 10.38.219.20 EQ 3389

B. DENY IP HOST 10.38.219.20 ANY EQ 25

C. DENY IP HOST192.168.1.10 HOST 10.38.219.20 EQ 3389

D. DENY TCP ANY HOST 192.168.1.10 EQ 25

While a threat intelligence analyst was researching an indicator of compromise on a search engine, the web proxy generated an alert regarding the same indicator. The threat intelligence analyst states that related sites were not visited but were searched for in a search engine. Which of the following MOST likely happened in this situation?

A. The analyst is not using the standard approved browser.

B. The analyst accidently clicked a link related to the indicator.

C. The analyst has prefetch enabled on the browser in use.

D. The alert in unrelated to the analyst’s search.