A company’s chief cybersecurity architect wants to configure mutual authentication to access an internal payroll website. The architect has asked the administration team to determine the configuration that would provide the best defense against MITM attacks. Which of the following implementation approaches would BEST support the architect’s goals?

An organization has recently deployed an EDR solution across its laptops, desktops, and server infrastructure. The organization’s server infrastructure is deployed in an IaaS environment. A database within the non-production environment has been misconfigured with a routable IP and is communicating with a command and control server. Which of the following procedures should the security responder apply to the situation? (Choose two.)

A security technician receives a copy of a report that was originally sent to the board of directors by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The report outlines the following KPI/KRI data for the last 12 months: Which of the following BEST describes what could be interpreted from the above data?

Which of the following describes a contract that is used to define the various levels of maintenance to be provided by an external business vendor in secure environment?

A company has adopted and established a continuous-monitoring capability, which has proven to be effective in vulnerability management, diagnostics, and mitigation. The company wants to increase the likelihood that it is able to discover and therefore respond to emerging threats earlier in the life cycle. Which of the following methodologies would BEST help the company to meet this objective? (Choose two.)

A consulting firm was hired to conduct assessment for a company. During the first stage, a penetration tester used a tool that provided the following output: TCP 80 open TCP 443 open TCP 1434 filtered The penetration tester then used a different tool to make the following requests: GET / script/login.php?token=45$MHT000MND876 GET / script/login.php?token=@#984DCSPQ%091DF Which of the following tools did the penetration tester use?

A company is not familiar with the risks associated with IPv6. The systems administrator wants to isolate IPv4 from IPv6 traffic between two different network segments. Which of the following should the company implement? (Select TWO)

A security analyst has been asked to create a list of external IT security concerns, which are applicable to the organization. The intent is to show the different types of external actors, their attack vectors, and the types of vulnerabilities that would cause business impact. The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) will then present this list to the board to request funding for controls in areas that have insufficient coverage. Which of the following exercise types should the analyst perform?

After several industry competitors suffered data loss as a result of cyberattacks, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of a company reached out to the information security manager to review the organization’s security stance. As a result of the discussion, the COO wants the organization to meet the following criteria: Blocking of suspicious websites Prevention of attacks based on threat intelligence Reduction in spam Identity-based reporting to meet regulatory compliance Prevention of viruses based on signatu

A managed service provider is designing a log aggregation service for customers who no longer want to manage an internal SIEM infrastructure. The provider expects that customers will send all types of logs to them, and that log files could contain very sensitive entries. Customers have indicated they want on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure logs to be stored in this new service. An engineer, who is designing the new service, is deciding how to segment customers. Which of the following is the BEST sta

At a meeting, the systems administrator states the security controls a company wishes to implement seem excessive, since all of the information on the company’s web servers can be obtained publicly and is not proprietary in any way. The next day the company’s website is defaced as part of an SQL injection attack, and the company receives press inquiries about the message the attackers displayed on the website. Which of the following is the FIRST action the company should take?

An engineer needs to provide access to company resources for several offshore contractors. The contractors require: Access to a number of applications, including internal websites Access to database data and the ability to manipulate it The ability to log into Linux and Windows servers remotely Which of the following remote access technologies are the BEST choices to provide all of this access securely? (Choose two.)

A company wants to confirm sufficient executable space protection is in place for scenarios in which malware may be attempting buffer overflow attacks. Which of the following should the security engineer check?

An administrator has noticed mobile devices from an adjacent company on the corporate wireless network. Malicious activity is being reported from those devices. To add another layer of security in an enterprise environment, an administrator wants to add contextual authentication to allow users to access enterprise resources only while present in corporate buildings. Which of the following technologies would accomplish this?

A bank is initiating the process of acquiring another smaller bank. Before negotiations happen between the organizations, which of the following business documents would be used as the FIRST step in the process?

An internal staff member logs into an ERP platform and clicks on a record. The browser URL changes to: URL: http://192.168.0.100/ERP/accountId=5&action=SELECT Which of the following is the MOST likely vulnerability in this ERP platform?

Providers at a healthcare system with many geographically dispersed clinics have been fined five times this year after an auditor received notice of the following SMS messages: Which of the following represents the BEST solution for preventing future fines?

Given the following code snippet: Of which of the following is this snippet an example?

Developers are working on a new feature to add to a social media platform. The new feature involves users uploading pictures of what they are currently doing. The data privacy officer (DPO) is concerned about various types of abuse that might occur due to this new feature. The DPO state the new feature cannot be released without addressing the physical safety concerns of the platform’s users. Which of the following controls would BEST address the DPO’s concerns?

As a result of an acquisition, a new development team is being integrated into the company. The development team has BYOD laptops with IDEs installed, build servers, and code repositories that utilize SaaS. To have the team up and running effectively, a separate Internet connection has been procured. A stand up has identified the following additional requirements: 1. Reuse of the existing network infrastructure 2. Acceptable use policies to be enforced 3. Protection of sensitive files 4. Access to the corpo

The Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from two different companies are discussing the highly sensitive prospect of merging their respective companies together. Both have invited their Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to discern how they can securely and digitally communicate, and the following criteria are collectively determined: Must be encrypted on the email servers and clients Must be OK to transmit over unsecure Internet connections Which of the following communication methods would be BEST to recommend

The government is concerned with remote military missions being negatively being impacted by the use of technology that may fail to protect operational security. To remediate this concern, a number of solutions have been implemented, including the following: End-to-end encryption of all inbound and outbound communication, including personal email and chat sessions that allow soldiers to securely communicate with families. Layer 7 inspection and TCP/UDP port restriction, including firewall rules to only allo

A user asks a security practitioner for recommendations on securing a home network. The user recently purchased a connected home assistant and multiple IoT devices in an effort to automate the home. Some of the IoT devices are wearables, and other are installed in the user’s automobiles. The current home network is configured as a single flat network behind an ISP-supplied router. The router has a single IP address, and the router performs NAT on incoming traffic to route it to individual devices. Which of

During the deployment of a new system, the implementation team determines that APIs used to integrate the new system with a legacy system are not functioning properly. Further investigation shows there is a misconfigured encryption algorithm used to secure data transfers between systems. Which of the following should the project manager use to determine the source of the defined algorithm in use?