CAS-005 — all questions

A security engineer is reviewing event logs because an employee successfully connected a personal Windows laptop to the corporate network, which is against company policy. Company policy allows all Windows 10 and 11 laptops to connect to the system as long as the MDM agent installed by IT is running. Only compliant devices can connect, and the logic in the system to evaluate compliant laptops is as follows: Which of the following most likely occurred when the employee connected a personally owned Windows laptop and was allowed on the network?

An organization is working to secure its development process to ensure developers cannot deploy artifacts directly into the production environment. Which of the following security practice recommendations would be the best to accomplish this objective?

A security architect discovers the following while reviewing code for a company's website: selection = "SELECT Item FROM Catalog WHERE ItemID = " & Request("ItemID") Which of the following should the security architect recommend?

A security architect needs to enable a container orchestrator for DevSecOps and SOAR initiatives. The engineer has discovered that several Ansible YAML files used for the automation of configuration management have the following content: Which of the following should the engineer do to correct the security issues presented within this content?

A CRM company leverages a CSP PaaS service to host and publish Its SaaS product. Recently, a large customer requested that all infrastructure components must meet strict regulatory requirements, including configuration management, patch management, and life-cycle management. Which of the following organizations is responsible for ensuring those regulatory requirements are met?

Company A is merging with Company B. Company A is a small, local company. Company B has a large, global presence. The two companies have a lot of duplication in their IT systems, processes, and procedures. On the new Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) first day, a fire breaks out at Company B's main data center. Which of the following actions should the CIO take first?

The results of an internal audit indicate several employees reused passwords that were previously included in a published list of compromised passwords. The company has the following employee password policy: Which of the following should be implemented to best address the password reuse issue? (Choose two.)

A mobile administrator is reviewing the following mobile device DHCP logs to ensure the proper mobile settings are applied to managed devices: Which of the following mobile configuration settings is the mobile administrator verifying?

A security analyst is investigating a possible insider threat incident that involves the use of an unauthorized USB from a shared account to exfiltrate data. The event did not create an alert. The analyst has confirmed the USB hardware ID is not on the device allow list, but has not yet confirmed the owner of the USB device. Which of the following actions should the analyst take next?

Which of the following security features do email signatures provide?

A software development company wants to ensure that users can confirm the software is legitimate when installing it. Which of the following is the best way for the company to achieve this security objective?

While performing mandatory monthly patch updates on a production application server, the security analyst reports an instance of buffer overflow for a new application that was migrated to the cloud and is also publicly exposed. Security policy requires that only internal users have access to the application. Which of the following should the analyst implement to mitigate the issues reported? (Choose two.)

PKI can be used to support security requirements in the change management process. Which of the following capabilities does PKI provide for messages?

Several unlabeled documents in a cloud document repository contain cardholder information. Which of the following configuration changes should be made to the DLP system to correctly label these documents in the future?

A systems administrator at a web-hosting provider has been tasked with renewing the public certificates of all customer sites. Which of the following would best support multiple domain names while minimizing the amount of certificates needed?

Which of the following best explain why organizations prefer to utilize code that is digitally signed? (Choose two.)

A security engineer receives reports through the organization's bug bounty program about remote code execution in a specific component in a custom application. Management wants to properly secure the component and proactively avoid similar issues. Which of the following is the best approach to uncover additional vulnerable paths in the application?

A security technician is investigating a system that tracks inventory via a batch update each night. The technician is concerned that the system poses a risk to the business, as errors are occasionally generated and reported inventory appears incorrect. The following output log is provided: The technician reviews the output of the batch job and discovers that the inventory was never less than zero, and the final inventory was 100 rather than 60. Which of the following should the technician do to resolve this issue?

A programmer is reviewing the following proprietary piece of code that was identified as a vulnerability due to users being authenticated when they provide incorrect credentials: Which of the following should the programmer implement to remediate the code vulnerability?

A senior cybersecurity engineer is solving a digital certificate issue in which the CA denied certificate issuance due to failed subject identity validation. At which of the following steps within the PKI enrollment process would the denial have occurred?