A large enterprise wants to gain a comprehensive view of its application security posture, including code vulnerabilities, IaC misconfigurations, and CI/CD pipeline weaknesses. The goal is to prioritize remediation efforts based on risk to the business. Which solution should the enterprise adopt?

A standalone IaC scanning tool that only checks cloud templates for misconfigurations.

An Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform that integrates with the CI/CD pipeline and aggregates findings from SAST, SCA, IaC scanning, and other tools.

A manual risk assessment performed by the security team on a quarterly basis.

A vulnerability scanner that only scans the production environment for known CVEs.

A development team uses a third-party library that has a known vulnerability with no available fix. The library is critical to the application's functionality, and replacing it would require significant effort. What is the most appropriate course of action?

Ignore the vulnerability because there is no fix available.

Fork the library and fix the vulnerability in-house.

Immediately remove the library from the application, even if it breaks functionality.

Implement compensating controls, such as a WAF rule or network segmentation, to mitigate the risk while monitoring for an upstream fix.

A development team uses a popular open-source library in their application. The security team discovers that the library has a critical vulnerability and an incompatible license. What should the team do?

Patch the vulnerability in the library's source code and continue using it.

Continue using the library and accept the risk, since it is widely used.

Replace the library with an alternative that has no known vulnerabilities and a compatible license.

Ignore the license issue and only address the vulnerability.

Which action is an example of enforcing security policies in a CI/CD pipeline?

Failing the build if a critical vulnerability is found in the code

Manually reviewing code only after deployment

Allowing all builds to pass to avoid delays

Disabling security tools to improve pipeline speed

Which of the following is a common misconfiguration that IaC security scanning can detect?

An outdated version of a third-party library

A storage bucket configured with public read access

A SQL injection vulnerability in a web application

A hardcoded encryption key in the application code

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11application · medium
A large enterprise wants to gain a comprehensive view of its application security posture, including code vulnerabilities, IaC misconfigurations, and CI/CD pipeline weaknesses. The goal is to prioritize remediation efforts based on risk to the business. Which solution should the enterprise adopt?
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12expert · hard
A development team uses a third-party library that has a known vulnerability with no available fix. The library is critical to the application's functionality, and replacing it would require significant effort. What is the most appropriate course of action?
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13application · medium
A development team uses a popular open-source library in their application. The security team discovers that the library has a critical vulnerability and an incompatible license. What should the team do?
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14foundation · easy
Which action is an example of enforcing security policies in a CI/CD pipeline?
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15foundation · easy
Which of the following is a common misconfiguration that IaC security scanning can detect?
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