Exact2Pass
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Daniel, a system administrator, was discovered accessing encrypted project files that had no relevance to his job responsibilities. A security audit revealed that his account had unrestricted access to all file servers, and there were no alerts or enforcement mechanisms in place to block or flag such access. Which countermeasure should have been in place to prevent this abuse?
Which of the following GPG18 and Forensic readiness planning (SPF) principles states
that “organizations should adopt a scenario based Forensic Readiness Planning
approach that learns from experience gained within the business”?
Khai was tasked with examining the logs from a Linux email server. The server uses Sendmail to execute the command to send emailsand Syslog to maintain logs. To validate the data within email headers, which of the following directories should Khai check for information such as source and destination IP addresses, dates, and timestamps?
Mei, a forensic analyst, is analyzing logs from a compromised blog platform. She finds evidence that an attacker posted content using a valid account, and later, users who visited the blog were redirected to a phishing site containing session cookies in the URL. What kind of attack does this best describe?
Liam, a network engineer, configures firewalls to prevent outbound file transfers over unauthorized FTP and HTTP channels. Despite this, an insider used encrypted traffic via HTTPS to exfiltrate data. A review revealed that no deep packet inspection was in place. Which insider threat eradication control could have helped prevent this?
QualTech Solutions is a leading security services enterprise. Dickson works as an incident responder with this firm. He is performing vulnerability assessment to identify
the security problems in the network, using automated tools to identify the hosts, services, and vulnerabilities present in the enterprise network.
Based on the above scenario, identify the type of vulnerability assessment performed by Dickson.
Ethan, part of the IH & R team, receives a phishing email targeting employees with a link to reset passwords. He hovers over the link and notices a discrepancy between the visible URL and the hyperlink. He cross-verifies the sender’s email structure and subject tone to detect further red flags. Which phishing detection approach is Ethan using?
Jake, a senior incident responder in a financial institution ' s SOC, receives a high-severity alert from the intrusion detection system (IDS). The alert indicates a flood of SYN packets targeting the internal web server, which has now become sluggish and unresponsive to legitimate client requests. The sudden surge in half-open connections is causing resource exhaustion on the server. Suspecting a SYN flood attack—a type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack—Jake needs to verify the source and nature of the traffic to determine the appropriate containment and mitigation strategy while preserving system integrity and uptime. What step should Jake take first in response to this suspected DoS incident?
A user downloaded what appears to be genuine software. Unknown to her, when she installed the application, it executed code that provided an unauthorized remote attacker access to her computer. What type of malicious threat displays this characteristic?
During an incident involving suspected unauthorized data access, Sophia, a system administrator, immediately isolates the affected system from the network to prevent further communication. She ensures no one tampers with the device, restricts access to the area, and notifies the incident response team. What role is Sophia performing as a first responder?
