CAS-005Preview

A security engineer is reviewing event logs because an employee successfully connected a personal Windows laptop to the corporate network, which is against company policy. Company policy allows all Windows 10 and 11 laptops to connect to the system as long as the MDM agent installed by IT is running. Only compliant devices can connect, and the logic in the system to evaluate compliant laptops is as follows:
Which of the following most likely occurred when the employee connected a personally owned Windows laptop and was allowed on the network?

During an adversarial simulation exercise, an external team was able to gain access to sensitive information and systems without the organization detecting this activity. Which of the following mitigation strategies should the organization use to best resolve the findings?

A security architect discovers the following while reviewing code for a company's website: selection = "SELECT Item FROM Catalog WHERE ItemID = " & Request("ItemID")
Which of the following should the security architect recommend?

A security architect needs to enable a container orchestrator for DevSecOps and SOAR initiatives. The engineer has discovered that several Ansible YAML files used for the automation of configuration management have the following content:

Which of the following should the engineer do to correct the security issues presented within this content?

A CRM company leverages a CSP PaaS service to host and publish Its SaaS product. Recently, a large customer requested that all infrastructure components must meet strict regulatory requirements, including configuration management, patch management, and life-cycle management. Which of the following organizations is responsible for ensuring those regulatory requirements are met?

Company A is merging with Company B. Company A is a small, local company. Company B has a large, global presence. The two companies have a lot of duplication in their IT systems, processes, and procedures. On the new Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) first day, a fire breaks out at Company B's main data center. Which of the following actions should the CIO take first?

A security analyst is investigating a possible insider threat incident that involves the use of an unauthorized USB from a shared account to exfiltrate data. The event did not create an alert. The analyst has confirmed the USB hardware ID is not on the device allow list, but has not yet confirmed the owner of the USB device. Which of the following actions should the analyst take next?

The results of an internal audit indicate several employees reused passwords that were previously included in a published list of compromised passwords.
The company has the following employee password policy:

Which of the following should be implemented to best address the password reuse issue? (Choose two.)

Which of the following security features do email signatures provide?

A software development company wants to ensure that users can confirm the software is legitimate when installing it. Which of the following is the best way for the company to achieve this security objective?

While performing mandatory monthly patch updates on a production application server, the security analyst reports an instance of buffer overflow for a new application that was migrated to the cloud and is also publicly exposed. Security policy requires that only internal users have access to the application. Which of the following should the analyst implement to mitigate the issues reported? (Choose two.)

PKI can be used to support security requirements in the change management process. Which of the following capabilities does PKI provide for messages?

Several unlabeled documents in a cloud document repository contain cardholder information. Which of the following configuration changes should be made to the DLP system to correctly label these documents in the future?

A systems administrator at a web-hosting provider has been tasked with renewing the public certificates of all customer sites. Which of the following would best support multiple domain names while minimizing the amount of certificates needed?

Which of the following best explain why organizations prefer to utilize code that is digitally signed? (Choose two.)

A security engineer receives reports through the organization's bug bounty program about remote code execution in a specific component in a custom application. Management wants to properly secure the component and proactively avoid similar issues. Which of the following is the best approach to uncover additional vulnerable paths in the application?

A senior cybersecurity engineer is solving a digital certificate issue in which the CA denied certificate issuance due to failed subject identity validation. At which of the following steps within the PKI enrollment process would the denial have occurred?

A programmer is reviewing the following proprietary piece of code that was identified as a vulnerability due to users being authenticated when they provide incorrect credentials:

Which of the following should the programmer implement to remediate the code vulnerability?

An internal user can send encrypted emails successfully to all recipients, except one. at an external organization. When the internal user attempts to send encrypted emails to this external recipient, a security error message appears. The issue does not affect unencrypted emails. The external recipient can send encrypted emails to internal users. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the issue?

A security administrator is setting up a virtualization solution that needs to run services from a single host. Each service should be the only one running in its environment. Each environment needs to have its own operating system as a base but share the kernel version and properties of the running host. Which of the following technologies would best meet these requirements?

A company has data it would like to aggregate from its PLCs for data visualization and predictive maintenance purposes. Which of the following is the most likely destination for the tag data from the PLCs?

Which of the following is the best way to protect the website browsing history for an executive who travels to foreign countries where internet usage is closely monitored?

A systems administrator is working with the SOC to identify potential intrusions associated with ransomware. The SOC wants the systems administrator to perform network-level analysis to identify outbound traffic from any infected machines. Which of the following is the most appropriate action for the systems administrator to take?

A retail organization wants to properly test and verify its capabilities to detect and/or prevent specific TTPs as mapped to the MITRE ATTACK framework specific to APTs. Which of the following should be used by the organization to accomplish this goal?