A Security Team Received Reports of Increased Latency on a Highly

question 954

Multiple Choice

A security team received reports of increased latency on a highly utilized e-commerce server. This led to eventual service unavailability as a result of internal scanning activity. The following web-server log was shared with the team to support this claim: Which of the following actions would BEST address the service impact caused by scanning?

• A) Enable proper error handling on the web server
• B) Run scans during off peak hours
• C) Stop scanning the affected servers
• D) Disable directory enumeration in the scanning policy

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