A Security Analyst on the Threat-Hunting Team Has Developed a List

question 121

Multiple Choice

A security analyst on the threat-hunting team has developed a list of unneeded, benign services that are currently running as part of the standard OS deployment for workstations. The analyst will provide this list to the operations team to create a policy that will automatically disable the services for all workstations in the organization. Which of the following BEST describes the security analyst's goal?

• A) To create a system baseline
• B) To reduce the attack surface
• C) To optimize system performance
• D) To improve malware detection

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter, with a certain level of confidence.

Population Mean

The average value of all the elements in a population, representing the central tendency of that population.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the values in a dataset deviate from the mean.

Confidence Interval

An estimated range of values calculated from sample data that is likely to include the true parameter of the whole population with a certain level of confidence.