A security engineer is reviewing a record of events after a recent data breach incident that Involved the following:
• A hacker conducted reconnaissance and developed a footprint of the company s Internet-facing web application assets.
• A vulnerability in a third-party horary was exploited by the hacker, resulting in the compromise of a local account.
• The hacker took advantage of the account's excessive privileges to access a data store and exfiltrate the data without detection.
Which of the following is the BEST solution to help prevent this type of attack from being successful in the future?
The Chief information Officer (CIO) wants to establish a non-banding agreement with a third party that outlines the objectives of the mutual arrangement dealing with data transfers between both organizations before establishing a format partnership. Which of the follow would MOST likely be used?
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?
Which of the following controls primarily detects abuse of privilege but does not prevent it?
TESTED 18 Nov 2024
