What is the main purpose of security monitoring and detection mechanisms?

To prevent all security incidents from occurring

To eliminate the need for incident response

To identify security incidents as early as possible

To automate the recovery of systems after an incident

A large e-commerce company has a proactive security monitoring system in place. However, the security team is overwhelmed by the number of alerts, many of which are false positives. They want to improve the effectiveness of their monitoring. Which approach would be most effective?

Tune the monitoring rules and establish a baseline of normal behavior to reduce false positives.

Disable alerts for low-severity events to reduce noise.

Increase the sensitivity of the monitoring tools to catch more potential threats.

Hire more security analysts to manually review all alerts.

What is the primary purpose of threat modeling?

To document the steps taken to respond to an active security incident

To test the effectiveness of security controls after they have been implemented

To identify and prioritize potential threats to a system or application

To ensure that all software vulnerabilities have been patched

A technology company has a proactive security response plan that was developed a year ago. Since then, the company has adopted a new cloud-based collaboration tool and has seen an increase in phishing attacks. The security team wants to ensure the plan remains effective. What should they do?

Continue using the existing plan as it was tested and approved.

Update the plan to include the new collaboration tool in the asset inventory and add phishing-specific response procedures.

Conduct a tabletop exercise to test the current plan without changes.

Disable the new collaboration tool to avoid introducing new risks.

Which activity is most directly associated with establishing a security-conscious culture?

Conducting phishing simulation exercises for employees

Regularly testing the incident response plan

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4.02 Determine the Appropriate Proactive Security Response Plan 401 Practice Questions (Page 3)

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