A Security Engineer Has Noticed an Unusually High Amount of Traffic

question 49

Multiple Choice

A security engineer has noticed an unusually high amount of traffic coming from a single IP address. This was discovered by analyzing the Application Load Balancer's access logs. How can the security engineer limit the number of requests from a specific IP address without blocking the IP address?

• A) Add a rule to the Application Load Balancer to route the traffic originating from the IP address in question and show a static webpage.
• B) Implement a rate-based rule with AWS WAF.
• C) Use AWS Shield to limit the originating traffic hit rate.
• D) Implement the GeoLocation feature in Amazon Route 53.

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