Security + Practice F

A user is presented with the following items during the new-hire onboarding process:

-Laptop

-Secure USB drive

-Hardware OTP token

-External high-capacity HDD

-Password complexity policy

-Acceptable use policy

-HASP key

-Cable lock

Which of the following is one component of multifactor authentication?

• Secure USB drive

• Cable lock

• Hardware OTP token

• HASP key

An organization requires users to provide their fingerprints to access an application. To improve security, the application developers intend to implement multifactor authentication. Which of the following should be implemented?

• Use a camera for facial recognition

• Have users sign their name naturally

• Require a palm geometry scan

• Implement iris recognition

A network technician is setting up a segmented network that will utilize a separate ISP to provide wireless access to the public area for a company. Which of the following wireless security methods should the technician implement to provide basic accountability for access to the public network?

• Pre-shared key

• Enterprise

• Wi-Fi Protected setup

• Captive portal

After a routine audit, a company discovers that engineering documents have been leaving the network on a particular port. The company must allow outbound traffic on this port, as it has a legitimate business use. Blocking the port would cause an outage. Which of the following technology controls should the company implement?

• NAC

• Web proxy

• DLP

• ACL

An organization's primary datacenter is experiencing a two-day outage due to an HVAC malfunction. The node located in the datacenter has lost power and is no longer operational, impacting the ability of all users to connect to the alternate datacenter. Which of the following BIA concepts BEST represents the risk described in this scenario?

• SPoF

• RTO

• MTBF

• MTTR

A security analyst notices anomalous activity coming from several workstations in the organizations. Upon identifying and containing the issue, which of the following should the security analyst do NEXT?

• Document and lock the workstations in a secure area to establish chain of custody

• Notify the IT department that the workstations are to be reimaged and the data restored for reuse

• Notify the IT department that the workstations may be reconnected to the network for the users to continue working

• Document findings and processes in the after-action and lessons learned report

An employee receives an email, which appears to be from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), asking for a report of security credentials for all users.

Which of the following types of attack is MOST likely occurring?

• Policy violation

• Social engineering

• Whaling

• Spear phishing

An information security analyst needs to work with an employee who can answer questions about how data for a specific system is used in the business. The analyst should seek out an employee who has the role of:

• steward

• owner

• privacy officer

• systems administrator

A group of non-profit agencies wants to implement a cloud service to share resources with each other and minimize costs. Which of the following cloud deployment models BEST describes this type of effort?

• Public

• Hybrid

• Community

• Private

A copy of a highly confidential salary report was recently found on a printer in the IT department. The human resources department does not have this specific printer mapped to its devices, and it is suspected that an employee in the IT department browsed to the share where the report was located and printed it without authorization. Which of the following technical controls would be the BEST choice to immediately prevent this from happening again?

• Implement a DLP solution and classify the report as confidential, restricting access only to human resources staff

• Restrict access to the share where the report resides to only human resources employees and enable auditing

• Have all members of the IT department review and sign the AUP and disciplinary policies

• Place the human resources computers on a restricted VLAN and configure the ACL to prevent access from the IT department