CAS-004 exam

A security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times. Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?A . 0.5B . 8C . 50D . 36,500View...

A security engineer thinks the development team has been hard-coding sensitive environment variables in its code. Which of the following would BEST secure the company’s CI/CD pipeline?A . Utilizing a trusted secrets managerB . Performing DAST on a weekly basisC . Introducing the use of container orchestrationD . Deploying instance...

A security engineer needs to implement a solution to increase the security posture of user endpoints by providing more visibility and control over local administrator accounts. The endpoint security team is overwhelmed with alerts and wants a solution that has minimal operational burdens. Additionally, the solution must maintain a positive...

An organization is referencing NIST best practices for BCP creation while reviewing current internal organizational processes for mission-essential items. Which of the following phases establishes the identification and prioritization of critical systems and functions?A . Review a recent gap analysis.B . Perform a cost-benefit analysis.C . Conduct a business impact...

A security engineer estimates the company’s popular web application experiences 100 attempted breaches per day. In the past four years, the company’s data has been breached two times. Which of the following should the engineer report as the ARO for successful breaches?A . 0.5B . 8C . 50D . 36,500View...

A new web server must comply with new secure-by-design principles and PCI DSS. This includes mitigating the risk of an on-path attack. A security analyst is reviewing the following web server configuration: Which of the following ciphers should the security analyst remove to support the business requirements?A . TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256B ....

A company has decided to purchase a license for software that is used to operate a mission-critical process. The third-party developer is new to the industry but is delivering what the company needs at this time. Which of the following BEST describes the reason why utilizing a source code escrow...

A satellite communications ISP frequently experiences outages and degraded modes of operation over one of its legacy satellite links due to the use of deprecated hardware and software. Three days per week, on average, a contracted company must follow a checklist of 16 different high-latency commands that must be run...

A security engineer needs to recommend a solution that will meet the following requirements: Identify sensitive data in the provider’s network Maintain compliance with company and regulatory guidelines Detect and respond to insider threats, privileged user threats, and compromised accounts Enforce datacentric security, such as encryption, tokenization, and access control...

During a system penetration test, a security engineer successfully gained access to a shell on a Linux host as a standard user and wants to elevate the privilege levels. Which of the following is a valid Linux post-exploitation method to use to accomplish this goal?A . Spawn a shell using...