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A valid and recommended reason for adding base images into Falcon Cloud Security is toreduce duplicate findings when a base image is used multiple times. Base images are commonly shared across many application images, meaning vulnerabilities, secrets, or detections present in the base layer can appear repeatedly across derived images.

By onboarding base images directly into Falcon Cloud Security, the platform can more efficiently track and correlate vulnerabilities at their source. This allows security teams to remediate issues once at the base image level rather than addressing the same findings across every downstream image. As a result, vulnerability management becomes more accurate, scalable, and operationally efficient.

The other options are incorrect and potentially dangerous assumptions. Base image CVEscan absolutely be exploitedby adversaries, and base image vulnerabilities are not inherently less risky than other CVEs. In many cases, unpatched base images are a primary attack vector in containerized environments.

CrowdStrike’s container image strategy emphasizes reducing noise, improving prioritization, and enabling faster remediation. Adding base images supports these goals by minimizing duplicate alerts and providing clearer insight into risk inheritance across image hierarchies. Therefore, the correct answer isReduce duplicates when a base image is used multiple times.

InCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, configuration policy breaches aligned to regulatory and security frameworks such asNISTare tracked asIndicators of Misconfiguration (IOMs). These findings represent deviations from best-practice configurations and compliance benchmarks.

To provide an auditable list of NIST-related configuration violations, the correct location isExport Cloud Posture – Indicators of misconfiguration. This export includes detailed records of misconfigured resources, associated benchmarks (NIST, CIS, etc.), affected cloud accounts, severity, and remediation guidance. It is specifically designed to support internal and external audit requirements.

Cloud Indicators of Attack focus on threat activity, not compliance. Remediation status reports focus on fix progress rather than raw policy violations. The Cloud Posture dashboard provides a high-level summary but does not deliver the detailed, exportable list required for audits.

Therefore,Export Cloud Posture – Indicators of misconfigurationis the correct and documented source.

When using theFalcon Kubernetes Admission Controller, CrowdStrike allows administrators to precisely scope which Kubernetes assets are evaluated againstIndicators of Misconfiguration (IOMs)andImage Assessment policiesby usingboth namespaces and pod or service labels.

Namespaces provide a logical boundary within Kubernetes clusters, often representing environments such as dev, staging, or production. Labels add further granularity by identifying workloads based on application, team ownership, or deployment tier. By combining namespaces and labels, security teams can enforce policies with fine-grained control while minimizing unintended enforcement.

Using only namespaces or only labels limits flexibility and may lead to over- or under-enforcement. CrowdStrike documentation supports the combined approach as a best practice for scalable and precise policy enforcement in Kubernetes environments.

Therefore, the correct answer isNamespaces and Pod or Service labels.

To notify your team when anew executable is downloaded and executed inside a running container, you must use aruntime-focused triggerin Falcon Fusion. The correct selection isContainer detection > Container runtime detection.

Container runtime detections monitor live container behavior, including process execution, file writes, network activity, and binary downloads. When an executable is introduced and run at runtime, this represents potential malicious activity or policy violation that cannot be detected during image assessment.

Image Assessmenttriggers apply only to pre-runtime image scanning and cannot detect runtime execution.Container drift detectionfocuses on changes to container state relative to the original image but does not specifically target execution-based detections.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security documentation clearly distinguishes runtime detections as the correct signal source for SOAR automation involving live container behavior. Therefore, the correct trigger configuration isContainer detection > Container runtime detection.

InCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, theAccount Registrationsection is the authoritative location for monitoring thestatus of onboarded cloud accountsand identifyingdeployment or configuration issues.

FromCloud Security → Settings → Account Registration, security teams can view whether AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts are successfully connected, partially configured, or experiencing errors. This view highlights misconfigurations such as missing permissions, failed integrations, or incomplete setup steps that could prevent posture assessments or detections from functioning correctly.

Other settings areas serve different purposes: Automate focuses on remediation workflows, posture policies define compliance logic, and scan settings control assessment frequency. None provide direct visibility into onboarding health and deployment validation.

Therefore,Cloud security – Settings – Account registrationis the correct and verified answer.

TheContainers and Images Compliance dashboardinFalcon Cloud Securityis designed to give security and DevOps teams avisual, aggregated view of compliance postureacross container images and running containers.

This dashboard summarizes compliance status against benchmarks such asCIS, organizational policies, and security best practices. It highlights compliant versus non-compliant images and containers, severity distribution, and trending risk, enabling teams to quickly assess overall posture and prioritize remediation.

The dashboard does not perform network monitoring, automatic patching, or unsupported container enumeration. Those functions are handled by other Falcon modules or operational workflows.

Therefore, itsprimary functionis toprovide a visual summary of compliance across containers and images, makingOption Acorrect.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security performs agentless cloud security posture management (CSPM) by integrating directly with cloud service providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform using native APIs. This approach allows Falcon to continuously assess cloud configurations, permissions, networking, storage, and identity controls without deploying sensors or agents.

By default, CrowdStrike configures cloud account scans to runevery 4 hours. This scan frequency is designed to strike a balance between near-real-time visibility and efficient API usage across cloud providers. Cloud environments are highly dynamic, with frequent changes to configurations, IAM policies, and services. A four-hour scan interval ensures that new misconfigurations or risky changes—such as overly permissive roles, exposed storage, or insecure network rules—are identified quickly enough to reduce exposure time.

Scanning more frequently could introduce unnecessary API throttling or operational overhead, while less frequent scans could delay detection of critical security gaps. The four-hour interval is therefore CrowdStrike’s recommended default for maintaining continuous visibility while preserving cloud provider performance and stability.

This default interval can be adjusted in certain scenarios, but unless explicitly changed,every 4 hoursis the standard scan cadence applied to AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.