An employee has been charged with fraud and is suspected of using corporate assets. As authorities collect evidence, and to preserve the admissibility of the
evidence, which of the following forensic techniques should be used?
A. Order of volatility
B. Data recovery
C. Chain of custody
D. Non-repudiation
CompTIA Security+ Question K-26
A company executive’s laptop was compromised, leading to a security breach. The laptop was placed into storage by a junior system administrator and was subsequently wiped and re-imaged. When it was determined that the authorities would need to be involved, there was little evidence to present to the investigators. Which of the following procedures could have been implemented to aid the authorities in their investigation?
A. A comparison should have been created from the original system’s file hashes
B. Witness testimony should have been taken by the administrator
C. The company should have established a chain of custody tracking the laptop
D. A system image should have been created and stored
CompTIA Security+ Question J-92
A security analyst informs the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) that a security breach has just occurred. This results in the Risk Manager and Chief Information Officer (CIO) being caught unaware when the CEO asks for further information. Which of the following strategies should be implemented to ensure the Risk Manager and CIO are not caught unaware in the future?
A. Procedure and policy management
B. Chain of custody management
C. Change management
D. Incident management
CompTIA Security+ Question J-37
Which of the following is the MOST important step for preserving evidence during forensic procedures?
A. Involve law enforcement
B. Chain of custody
C. Record the time of the incident
D. Report within one hour of discovery
CompTIA Security+ Question G-69
The security manager received a report that an employee was involved in illegal activity and has saved data to a workstation’s hard drive. During the investigation, local law enforcement’s criminal division confiscates the hard drive as evidence. Which of the following forensic procedures is involved?
A. Chain of custody
B. System image
C. Take hashes
D. Order of volatility
CompTIA Security+ Question G-67
Computer evidence at a crime is preserved by making an exact copy of the hard disk. Which of the following does this illustrate?
A. Taking screenshots
B. System image capture
C. Chain of custody
D. Order of volatility
CompTIA Security+ Question F-92
The incident response team has received the following email message.
From: monitor@ext-company.com To: security@company.com Subject: Copyright infringement
A copyright infringement alert was triggered by IP address 13.10.66.5 at 09: 50: 01 GMT.
After reviewing the following web logs for IP 13.10.66.5, the team is unable to correlate and identify the incident.
09:
45: 33 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/login.asp?user=john
09:
50: 22 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/logout.asp?user=anne
10: 50: 01 13.10.66.5 http: //remote.site.com/access.asp?file=movie.mov
11: 02: 45 13.10.65.5 http: //remote.site.com/download.asp?movie.mov=ok
Which of the following is the MOST likely reason why the incident response team is unable to identify and correlate the incident?
A. The logs are corrupt and no longer forensically sound.
B. Traffic logs for the incident are unavailable.
C. Chain of custody was not properly maintained.
D. Incident time offsets were not accounted for.
CompTIA Security+ Question F-59
A system administrator is responding to a legal order to turn over all logs from all company servers. The system administrator records the system time of all servers to ensure that:
A. HDD hashes are accurate.
B. the NTP server works properly.
C. chain of custody is preserved.
D. time offset can be calculated.
CompTIA Security+ Question D-54
In the initial stages of an incident response, Matt, the security administrator, was provided the hard drives in question from the incident manager. Which of the following incident response procedures would he need to perform in order to begin the analysis? (Select TWO).
A. Take hashes
B. Begin the chain of custody paperwork
C. Take screen shots
D. Capture the system image
E. Decompile suspicious files
CompTIA Security+ Question D-45
Which of the following policies is implemented in order to minimize data loss or theft?
A. PII handling
B. Password policy
C. Chain of custody
D. Zero day exploits