Which of the following is an appropriate way to communicate security findings to non-technical executives?

A technical explanation of the exploit code used

An email with no context or explanation

A high-level summary focusing on business impact and risk

A detailed list of all raw log entries

A SOC analyst is configuring the SIEM to send notifications. The team wants to be notified immediately when a critical alert is triggered, but they also want to receive a daily summary of all low-severity alerts. What is the best way to configure this?

Send real-time notifications for all alerts, regardless of severity.

Send a daily summary for all alerts, including critical ones.

Disable notifications for low-severity alerts entirely.

Set up a real-time notification for critical alerts and a scheduled daily summary for low-severity alerts.

What is the main benefit of correlating multiple security events?

It helps identify patterns and threats that would be missed when events are viewed individually

It eliminates the need for a security baseline

It reduces the total number of events that need to be stored

It automatically blocks all malicious traffic

A SOC team is overwhelmed by thousands of daily alerts from a new intrusion detection system (IDS). Most alerts are for known benign internal scanning tools. The team wants to focus on genuine threats. Which approach best addresses this situation?

Increase the sensitivity of the IDS to catch more potential threats.

Forward all alerts to the security manager for manual review.

Disable the IDS until the team can analyze all the alerts.

Create a suppression rule that filters out alerts from the known benign scanning tools.

What is the main purpose of a security dashboard?

To replace the need for security analysts

To automatically respond to security incidents

To provide a consolidated view of security monitoring data for quick assessment

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A SOC analyst is configuring the SIEM to send notifications. The team wants to be notified immediately when a critical alert is triggered, but they also want to receive a daily summary of all low-severity alerts. What is the best way to configure this?
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What is the main benefit of correlating multiple security events?
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34application · medium
A SOC team is overwhelmed by thousands of daily alerts from a new intrusion detection system (IDS). Most alerts are for known benign internal scanning tools. The team wants to focus on genuine threats. Which approach best addresses this situation?
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