A Systems Administrator Is Receiving Multiple Alerts from the Company

question 1029

Multiple Choice

A systems administrator is receiving multiple alerts from the company NIPS. A review of the NIPS logs shows the following: reset both: 70.32.200.2:3194 -> 10.4.100.4:80 buffer overflow attempt reset both: 70.32.200.2:3230 -> 10.4.100.4:80 directory traversal attack reset client: 70.32.200.2:4019 -> 10.4.100.4:80 Blind SQL injection attack Which of the following should the systems administrator report back to management?

• A) The company web server was attacked by an external source, and the NIPS blocked the attack.
• B) The company web and SQL servers suffered a DoS caused by a misconfiguration of the NIPS.
• C) An external attacker was able to compromise the SQL server using a vulnerable web application.
• D) The NIPS should move from an inline mode to an out-of-band mode to reduce network latency.

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