Question 630
During a security analytics acceptance test, operators report: An IPS dashboard shows source and destination addresses, but the analyst mistakenly treats the protected server's destination as the attacking endpoint. What evidence would best demonstrate that the intended workflow now works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This directly verifies intrusion event source and target reversal: The attack timeline assigns initiator and targeted host consistently across related events. The linked remediation is: Inspect source and destination fields, network zones, policy direction and signatures for the original log records. A result from an unrelated SOC function does not prove this requirement.
Incorrect Answers
The report identifies the specific aggregation or filtering change responsible for the difference. This is a different failure mechanism from the current case, which concerns the attack timeline assigns initiator and targeted host consistently across related events.
This option instead describes the incident accurately states whether a transfer attempt was blocked, monitored or successfully completed. Testing that independent mechanism would not show whether the reported fault has been resolved.
The workflow's test traffic matches the intended application handling without an unrestricted service exception. The stem describes an IPS dashboard shows source and destination addresses, but the analyst mistakenly treats the protected server's destination as the attacking endpoint, so this explanation does not account for the observations.