ECCouncil 312-40 - EC-Council Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE)
SecureSoft Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops mobile-based applications. Owing to the secure and cost-effective cloud-based services provided by Google, the organization migrated its applications and data from on premises environment to Google cloud. Sienna Miller, a cloud security engineer, selected the Coldlinc Storage class for storing data in the Google cloud storage bucket. What is the minimum storage duration for Coldline Storage?
VenturiaCloud is a cloud service provider that offers robust and cost-effective cloud-based services to cloud consumers. The organization became a victim of a cybersecurity attack. An attacker performed a DDoS attack over the cloud that caused failure in the entire cloud environment. VenturiaCloud conducted a forensics investigation. Who among the following are the first line of defense against cloud security attacks with their primary role being responding against any type of security incident immediately?
Being a cloud security administrator, Jonathan is responsible for securing the large-scale cloud infrastructure of his organization SpectrumIT Solutions. The organization has to implement a threat detection and analysis system so that Jonathan would receive alerts regarding all misconfigurations and network intrusions in the organization's cloud infrastructure. Which AWS service would enable him to use to receive alerts related to risks?
Ocular Private Ltd. is an IT company that develops software related to graphic design. The organization has been using Google cloud services. Margot Robbie has been working as a cloud security engineer in Ocular Private Ltd. over the past three years. She uses the CCP Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stack Driver} logging and monitoring tool to monitor and debug CCP hosted applications. Margot would like to monitor a compute engine instance with cloud monitoring; therefore, she created a compute engine instance, then she installed the cloud monitoring agent. Which of the following command can Margot use to start the cloud monitoring agent?
A cloud organization, AZS, wants to maintain homogeneity in its cloud operations because the CPU speed measured by AZS varies and the measurement units lack consistency in the standards. For example, AWS defines the CPU speed with Elastic Compute Unit, Google with Google Compute Engine Unit, and Microsoft with clock speed. Here, which cloud computing standard can leverage frameworks and architectures specific to the cloud for maintaining homogeneity in operations?
Georgia Lyman is a cloud security engineer; she wants to detect unusual activities in her organizational Azure account. For this, she wants to create alerts for unauthorized activities with their severity level to prioritize the alert that should be investigated first. Which Azure service can help her in detecting the severity and creating alerts?
An Azure organization wants to enforce its on-premises AD security and password policies to filter brute-force attacks. Instead of using legacy authentication, the users should sign in to on-premises and cloud-based applications using the same passwords in Azure AD. Which Azure AD feature can enable users to access Azure resources?
Global SciTech Pvt. Ltd. is an IT company that develops healthcare-related software. Using an incident detection system (IDS) and antivirus software, the incident response team of the organization has observed that attackers are targeting the organizational network to gain access to the resources in the on-premises environment. Therefore, their team of cloud security engineers met with a cloud service provider to discuss the various security provisions offered by the cloud service provider. While discussing the security of the organization's virtual machine in the cloud environment, the cloud service provider stated that the Network Security Groups (NSGs) will secure the VM by allowing or denying network traffic to VM instances in a virtual network based on inbound and outbound security rules. Which of the following cloud service provider filters the VM network traffic in a virtual network using NSGs?
Jimmi Simpson has been working as a cloud security engineer in an IT company situated in Uvonia. Michigan. His organization uses Microsoft Azure's cloud-based services. Jimml wants a cloud-based, scalable SIEM and SOAP solution that uses threat intelligence and provides intelligent security analytics across his organization. Which of the following Microsoft Azure services provides of single solution for threat visibility, alert detection, threat response, and proactive hunting that reduces the number of attacks, provides a birds-eye view across the organization, generates high volumes of alerts, and ensures long resolution time frames?
FinTech Inc. is an IT company that utilizes a cloud platform to run its IT infrastructure. Employees belonging to various departments do not implement the rules and regulations framed by the IT department, which leads to fragmented control and breaches that affect the efficiency of cloud services. How can the organization effectively overcome shadow IT and unwarranted usage of cloud resources in this scenario?