QuestionQ33

Endpoint Attack and Pivoting

An attacker has breached a network and is entering the stage of pivoting across the network. Which defense mitigates this phase of the attack?

  • A Setting unique password for each computer’s local administrator
  • B Creating two network interfaces for machines that require access to internal and external resources
  • C Alerting on Internet traffic sent to ports commonly used by attack tools
  • D Prioritizing patching for public facing servers and web services
Explanation

Unique local-administrator passwords on every computer prevent reuse of a compromised local administrator credential or hash on other hosts, mitigating pass-the-hash and lateral-movement attacks.

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