CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 v1.0

A user in the finance department uses a laptop to store a spreadsheet that contains confidential financial information for the company. Which of the following would be the BEST way to protect the file while the user travels between locations? (Choose two.)

A threat hunting team receives a report about possible APT activity in the network.
Which of the following threat management frameworks should the team implement?

Device event logs sourced from MDM software as follows:

Which of the following security concerns and response actions would BEST address the risks posed by the device in the logs?

An energy company is required to report the average pressure of natural gas used over the past quarter. A PLC sends data to a historian server that creates the required reports.
Which of the following historian server locations will allow the business to get the required reports in an ׀׀¢ and IT environment?

Which of the following is a benefit of using steganalysis techniques in forensic response?

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 security analyst notices a number of SIEM events that show the following activity:

Which of the following response actions should the analyst take FIRST?

A company has hired a third party to develop software as part of its strategy to be quicker to market. The company's policy outlines the following requirements:
✑ The credentials used to publish production software to the container registry should be stored in a secure location.
✑ Access should be restricted to the pipeline service account, without the ability for the third-party developer to read the credentials directly.
Which of the following would be the BEST recommendation for storing and monitoring access to these shared credentials?

A business stores personal client data of individuals residing in the EU in order to process requests for mortgage loan approvals.
Which of the following does the business's IT manager need to consider?

A company publishes several APIs for customers and is required to use keys to segregate customer data sets.
Which of the following would be BEST to use to store customer keys?

An organization wants to perform a scan of all its systems against best practice security configurations.
Which of the following SCAP standards, when combined, will enable the organization to view each of the configuration checks in a machine-readable checklist format for full automation? (Choose two.)

A company is migrating from company-owned phones to a BYOD strategy for mobile devices. The pilot program will start with the executive management team and be rolled out to the rest of the staff in phases. The company's Chief Financial Officer loses a phone multiple times a year.
Which of the following will MOST likely secure the data on the lost device?

A security architect works for a manufacturing organization that has many different branch offices. The architect is looking for a way to reduce traffic and ensure the branch offices receive the latest copy of revoked certificates issued by the CA at the organization's headquarters location. The solution must also have the lowest power requirement on the CA.
Which of the following is the BEST solution?

After a security incident, a network security engineer discovers that a portion of the company's sensitive external traffic has been redirected through a secondary
ISP that is not normally used.
Which of the following would BEST secure the routes while allowing the network to function in the event of a single provider failure?