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?
A networking team asked a security administrator to enable Flash on its web browser. The networking team explained that an important legacy embedded system gathers SNMP information from various devices. The system can only be managed through a web browser running Flash. The embedded system will be replaced within the year but is still critical at the moment.
Which of the following should the security administrator do to mitigate the risk?
An organization’s assessment of a third-party, non-critical vendor reveals that the vendor does not have cybersecurity insurance and IT staff turnover is high. The organization uses the vendor to move customer office equipment from one service location to another. The vendor acquires customer data and access to the business via an API.
Given this information, which of the following is a noted risk?
An organization is prioritizing efforts to remediate or mitigate risks identified during the latest assessment. For one of the risks, a full remediation was not possible, but the organization was able to successfully apply mitigations to reduce the likelihood of impact.
Which of the following should the organization perform NEXT?
A bank is working with a security architect to find the BEST solution to detect database management system compromises. The solution should meet the following requirements:
♦ Work at the application layer
♦ Send alerts on attacks from both privileged and malicious users
♦ Have a very low false positive
Which of the following should the architect recommend?
As part of its risk strategy, a company is considering buying insurance for cybersecurity incidents.
Which of the following BEST describes this kind of risk response?
A vulnerability scanner detected an obsolete version of an open-source file-sharing application on one of a company’s Linux servers. While the software version is no longer supported by the OSS community, the company’s Linux vendor backported fixes, applied them for all current vulnerabilities, and agrees to support the software in the future.
Based on this agreement, this finding is BEST categorized as a:
A security engineer notices the company website allows users following example:
hitps://mycompany.com/main.php?Country=US
Which of the following vulnerabilities would MOST likely affect this site?
A security architect for a large, multinational manufacturer needs to design and implement a security solution to monitor traffic.
When designing the solution, which of the following threats should the security architect focus on to prevent attacks against the ОТ network?
An organization's finance system was recently attacked. A forensic analyst is reviewing the contents Of the compromised files for credit card data.
Which of the following commands should the analyst run to BEST determine whether financial data was lost?
Due to internal resource constraints, the management team has asked the principal security architect to recommend a solution that shifts partial responsibility for application-level controls to the cloud provider. In the shared responsibility model, which of the following levels of service meets this requirement?
A security analyst discovered that a database administrator's workstation was compromised by malware. After examining the Jogs. the compromised workstation was observed connecting to multiple databases through ODBC. The following query behavior was captured:
Assuming this query was used to acquire and exfiltrate data, which of the following types of data was compromised, and what steps should the incident response plan contain?
A) Personal health information: Inform the human resources department of the breach and review the DLP logs.
В) Account history; Inform the relationship managers of the breach and create new accounts for the affected users.
C) Customer IDs: Inform the customer service department of the breach and work to change the account numbers.
D) PAN: Inform the legal department of the breach and look for this data in dark web monitoring.
A security operations center analyst is investigating anomalous activity between a database server and an unknown external IP address and gathered the following data:
• dbadmin last logged in at 7:30 a.m. and logged out at 8:05 a.m.
• A persistent TCP/6667 connection to the external address was established at 7:55 a.m. The connection is still active.
• Other than bytes transferred to keep the connection alive, only a few kilobytes of data transfer every hour since the start of the connection.
• A sample outbound request payload from PCAP showed the ASCII content: "JOIN #community".
Which of the following is the MOST likely root cause?
Due to budget constraints, an organization created a policy that only permits vulnerabilities rated high and critical according to CVSS to be fixed or mitigated. A security analyst notices that many vulnerabilities that were previously scored as medium are now breaching higher thresholds. Upon further investigation, the analyst notices certain ratings are not aligned with the approved system categorization. Which of the following can the analyst do to get a better picture of the risk while adhering to the organization's policy?
A system administrator at a medical imaging company discovers protected health information (PHI) on a general-purpose file server. Which of the following steps should the administrator take NEXT?
TESTED 18 Aug 2025
