Question 1

A cybersecurity analyst receives a ticket that indicates a potential incident is occurring. There has been a large in log files generated by a generated by a website containing a ''Contact US'' form. The analyst must determine if the increase in website traffic is dueto a recent marketing campaign of if this is a potential incident. Which of the following would BEST assist the analyst?
  • Question 2

    A cybersecurity analyst discovered a private key that could have been exposed.
    Which of the following is the BEST way for the analyst to determine if the key has been compromised?
  • Question 3

    An organization is implementing a new identity and access management architecture with the following objectives:
    Supporting MFA against on-premises infrastructure
    Improving the user experience by integrating with SaaS applications
    Applying risk-based policies based on location
    Performing just-in-time provisioning
    Which of the following authentication protocols should the organization implement to support these requirements?
  • Question 4

    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?
  • Question 5

    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?