A security analyst is investigating a system compromise. The analyst verifies the system was up to date on OS patches at the time of the compromise. Which of the following describes the type of vulnerability that was MOST likely exploited?

A company office was broken into over the weekend. The office manager contacts the IT security group to provide details on which servers were stolen. The security analyst determines one of the stolen servers contained a list of customer PII information, and another server contained a copy of the credit card transactions processed on the Friday before the break-in. In addition to potential security implications of information that could be gleaned from those servers and the rebuilding/restoring of the data on the stolen systems, the analyst needs to determine any communication or notification requirements with respect to the incident. Which of the following items is MOST important when determining what information needs to be provided, who should be contacted, and when the communication needs to occur.

During a review of security controls, an analyst was able to connect to an external, unsecured FTP server from a workstation. The analyst was troubleshooting and reviewed the ACLs of the segment firewall the workstation is connected to:

Based on the ACLs above, which of the following explains why the analyst was able to connect to the FTP server?

While reviewing three months of logs, a security analyst notices probes from random company laptops going to SCADA equipment at the company's manufacturing location. Some of the probes are getting responses from the equipment even though firewall rules are in place, which should block this type of unauthorized activity. Which of the following should the analyst recommend to keep this activity from originating from company laptops?

Which of the following utilities could be used to resolve an IP address to a domain name, assuming the address has a PTR record?