A security architect is evaluating whether to use attack surface rules or traditional detection content to address a new threat. The threat involves a legitimate system tool being abused for malicious purposes. The architect wants to prevent the abuse without blocking legitimate use of the tool. What is the primary advantage of using an attack surface rule for this scenario?

Attack surface rules automatically update to address new threats without manual configuration.

Attack surface rules are the only way to detect abuse of legitimate system tools.

Attack surface rules can be finely tuned with filters to block only the abusive behaviors while allowing legitimate use.

Attack surface rules do not generate false positives because they are behavior-based.

How do attack surface rules evaluate conditions that use AND logic?

At least one condition must be true for the rule to match

Conditions are evaluated based on their order of appearance

Only the first condition is evaluated

All conditions must be true for the rule to match

Which of the following are components of an attack surface rule in XSIAM?

Alert severity, incident status, and assignee

Trigger conditions, filters, and actions

Log source, log type, and log format

Source IP, destination IP, and port number

In attack surface rule evaluation, what does OR logic mean?

The rule matches only if no conditions are true

The rule matches if at least one of the conditions is true

The rule matches only if all conditions are true

The rule matches based on the first condition only

An analyst has created a new attack surface rule to detect unusual outbound network connections. Before enabling it in production, the analyst wants to verify that the rule triggers correctly on a known malicious sample. What is the recommended approach to validate the rule's effectiveness?

Ask another analyst to manually review the rule's syntax without running any simulation.

Use the rule testing feature to simulate the sample event and confirm the rule fires as expected.

Create a second rule with the same conditions and compare the results after a week.

Enable the rule in production and monitor the alert queue for the next 24 hours to see if it fires.

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A security architect is evaluating whether to use attack surface rules or traditional detection content to address a new threat. The threat involves a legitimate system tool being abused for malicious purposes. The architect wants to prevent the abuse without blocking legitimate use of the tool. What is the primary advantage of using an attack surface rule for this scenario?
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Which of the following are components of an attack surface rule in XSIAM?
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