CompTIA CAS-004 - CompTIA SecurityX Certification Exam
A company is looking at sending historical backups containing customer PII to a cloud service provider to save on storage costs. Which of the following is the MOST important consideration before making this decision?
An attacker infiltrated the code base of a hardware manufacturer and inserted malware before the code was compiled. The malicious code is now running at the hardware level across a number of industries and sectors. Which of the following categories BEST describes this type of vendor risk?
Which of the following is required for an organization to meet the ISO 27018 standard?
A developer implement the following code snippet.
Which of the following vulnerabilities does the code snippet resolve?
A security analyst is investigating a series of suspicious emails by employees to the security team. The email appear to come from a current business partner and do not contain images or URLs. No images or URLs were stripped from the message by the security tools the company uses instead, the emails only include the following in plain text.
Which of the following should the security analyst perform?
A pharmaceutical company recently experienced a security breach within its customer-facing web portal. The attackers performed a SQL injection attack and exported tables from the company’s managed database, exposing customer information.
The company hosts the application with a CSP utilizing the IaaS model. Which of the following parties is ultimately responsible for the breach?
A penetration tester obtained root access on a Windows server and, according to the rules of engagement, is permitted to perform post-exploitation for persistence.
Which of the following techniques would BEST support this?
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 financial services company wants to migrate its email services from on-premises servers to a cloud-based email solution. The Chief information Security Officer (CISO) must brief board of directors on the potential security concerns related to this migration. The board is concerned about the following.
* Transactions being required by unauthorized individual
* Complete discretion regarding client names, account numbers, and investment information.
* Malicious attacker using email to distribute malware and ransom ware.
* Exfiltration of sensitivity company information.
The cloud-based email solution will provide an6-malware, reputation-based scanning, signature-based scanning, and sandboxing. Which of the following is the BEST option to resolve the board’s concerns for this email migration?
Immediately following the report of a potential breach, a security engineer creates a forensic image of the server in question as part of the organization incident response procedure. Which of the must occur to ensure the integrity of the image?
A small business would like to provide guests who are using mobile devices encrypted WPA3 access without first distributing PSKs or other credentials. Which of the following features will enable the business to meet this objective?
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?
A Chief information Security Officer (CISO) is developing corrective-action plans based on the following from a vulnerability scan of internal hosts:
Which of the following MOST appropriate corrective action to document for this finding?
A DevOps team has deployed databases, event-driven services, and an API gateway as PaaS solution that will support a new billing system. Which of the following security responsibilities will the DevOps team need to perform?
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is concerned that a company's current data disposal procedures could result in data remanence. The company uses only SSDs. Which of the following would be the MOST secure way to dispose of the SSDs given the CISO's concern?
