How do rules and policies help enforce standards in Cortex Cloud?

By providing a dashboard for viewing security alerts

By continuously checking resources against defined policies

By encrypting all data stored in the cloud

By automatically creating new cloud resources

A security analyst is investigating a potential insider threat. The analyst suspects that a user with a 'Database Administrator' role has been performing unauthorized data exports. The analyst wants to identify all users with this role and review their recent activity. What should the analyst use in Cortex Cloud?

The roles indicator type to group users by the 'Database Administrator' role and correlate their activity

The users indicator type to create a separate indicator for each user individually

The IP address indicator type to check the source IPs of the data exports

The asset inventory to see which databases the role has access to

A multinational company must comply with both GDPR and PCI DSS. The compliance team needs to provide evidence of data protection controls and log retention for the past 12 months. The team is using Cortex Cloud. What is the most efficient approach to gather this evidence?

Create a users indicator type to track all personnel who access the data

Export all raw logs from the past 12 months and present them to the auditor

Generate compliance reports for both GDPR and PCI DSS, and verify log retention settings cover 12 months

Configure data masking on all logs and present the masking configuration

Which feature is part of data protection in Cortex Cloud?

Automatic deletion of all logs after 30 days

Providing a public API for data access

Storing data in a single region for simplicity

Encryption of data at rest and in transit

What is the function of rules and policies in Cortex Cloud?

To automate security responses and enforce standards

To monitor network traffic for performance issues

To provide a user interface for cloud resource management

To store encryption keys for cloud resources

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