A Company Has Gone Through a Round of Phishing Attacks

question 106

Multiple Choice

A company has gone through a round of phishing attacks. More than 200 users have had their workstation infected because they clicked on a link in an email. An incident analysis has determined an executable ran and compromised the administrator account on each workstation. Management is demanding the information security team prevent this from happening again. Which of the following would BEST prevent this from happening again?

• A) Antivirus  
• B) Patch management
• C) Log monitoring
• D) Application whitelisting
• E) Awareness training

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