1. An analysis of an organization’s security posture determined that a particular asset is at risk and a new process or solution should be implemented to protect it. Typically, who would be in charge of implementing the new process or solution that was selected?

2. According to David Bianco’s Pyramid of Pain, which indicator type is least effective when used in continuous monitoring?

3. Upon investigating a report of a web server becoming unavailable, the security analyst finds that the web server’s access log has the same log entry millions of times:
147.186.119.200 – – [28/Jul/2023:12:04:13 -0300] “GET /login/ HTTP/1.0” 200 3733
What kind of attack is occurring?

4. What device typically sits at a network perimeter to detect command and control and other potentially suspicious traffic?

5. A Risk Rule generates events on Suspicious Cloud Share Activity and regularly contributes to confirmed incidents from Risk Notables. An analyst realizes the raw logs these events are generated from contain information which helps them determine what might be malicious.
What should they ask their engineer for to make their analysis easier?

6. An analyst would like to visualize threat objects across their environment and chronological risk events for a Risk Object in Incident Review. Where would they find this?

7. During their shift, an analyst receives an alert about an executable being run from C:\Windows\Temp. Why should this be investigated further?

8. An analyst is not sure that all of the potential data sources at her company are being correctly or completely utilized by Splunk and Enterprise Security. Which of the following might she suggest using, in order to perform an analysis of the data types available and some of their potential security uses?

9. In which phase of the Continuous Monitoring cycle are suggestions and improvements typically made?

10. An analyst notices that one of their servers is sending an unusually large amount of traffic, gigabytes more than normal, to a single system on the Internet. There doesn’t seem to be any associated increase in incoming traffic.
What type of threat actor activity might this represent?

11. A threat hunter executed a hunt based on the following hypothesis:
As an actor, I want to plant rundll32 for proxy execution of malicious code and leverage Cobalt Strike for Command and Control.
Relevant logs and artifacts such as Sysmon, netflow, IDS alerts, and EDR logs were searched, and the hunter is confident in the conclusion that Cobalt Strike is not present in the company’s environment.
Which of the following best describes the outcome of this threat hunt?

12. Which Enterprise Security framework provides a mechanism for running preconfigured actions within the Splunk platform or integrating with external applications?

13. Which of the following Splunk Enterprise Security features allows industry frameworks such as CIS Critical Security Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, and the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain® to be mapped to Correlation Search results?

14. Which of the following is the primary benefit of using the CIM in Splunk?

15. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) are methods or behaviors utilized by attackers. In which framework are these categorized?