A Security Analyst Observes the Following Events in the Logs

question 406

Multiple Choice

A security analyst observes the following events in the logs of an employee workstation: Given the information provided, which of the following MOST likely occurred on the workstation?

• A) Application whitelisting controls blocked an exploit payload from executing.
• B) Antivirus software found and quarantined three malware files.
• C) Automatic updates were initiated but failed because they had not been approved.
• D) The SIEM log agent was not tuned properly and reported a false positive.

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