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CompTIA SecurityX Certification Exam Questions and Answers

Question 141

Leveraging cryptographic solutions to protect data that is in use ensures the data is encrypted:

Options:

A.

when it is passed across a local network.

B.

in memory during processing

C.

when it is written to a system’s solid-state drive.

D.

by an enterprise hardware security module.

Question 142

An organization is prioritizing efforts to remediate or mitigate risks identified during the latest assessment. For one of the risks, a full remediation was not possible, but the organization was able to successfully apply mitigations to reduce the likelihood of impact.

Which of the following should the organization perform NEXT?

Options:

A.

Assess the residual risk.

B.

Update the organization’s threat model.

C.

Move to the next risk in the register.

D.

Recalculate the magnitude of impact.

Question 143

A pharmaceutical company recently experienced a security breach within its customer-facing web portal. The attackers performed a SQL injection attack and exported tables from the company’s managed database, exposing customer information.

The company hosts the application with a CSP utilizing the IaaS model. Which of the following parties is ultimately responsible for the breach?

Options:

A.

The pharmaceutical company

B.

The cloud software provider

C.

The web portal software vendor

D.

The database software vendor

Question 144

An organization is assessing the security posture of a new SaaS CRM system that handles sensitive PI I and identity information, such as passport numbers. The SaaS CRM system does not meet the organization's current security standards. The assessment identifies the following:

1) There will be a 520,000 per day revenue loss for each day the system is delayed going into production.

2) The inherent risk is high.

3) The residual risk is low.

4) There will be a staged deployment to the solution rollout to the contact center.

Which of the following risk-handling techniques will BEST meet the organization's requirements?

Options:

A.

Apply for a security exemption, as the risk is too high to accept.

B.

Transfer the risk to the SaaS CRM vendor, as the organization is using a cloud service.

C.

Accept the risk, as compensating controls have been implemented to manage the risk.

D.

Avoid the risk by accepting the shared responsibility model with the SaaS CRM provider.

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