Question

A Ask for help desk to contact Diane Mayfair for a password reset.

B Follow up with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) regarding his login issues.

C Check logs for activities by the dmayfair account

D Contact Doug Smith to setup an account in the system.

A security analyst is reviewing the overnight authentication activity and sees the following set of logs from last evening: User Log dmayfair Invalid password dmayfair Invalid password amyers Invalid password Date/Time 2/17/2017 09:01:10 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:14 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:15 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:22 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:28 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:35 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:35 PM EDT 2/17/2017 09:01:50 PM EDT dmayfair Invalid password dmayfair Invalid password dmayfair Invalid password amyers Password accepted dmayfair Password accepted The analyst next checks the identity management system and finds the following: User ID Full Name Aaron Myers Diane Mayfair amyers dmayfair dsmith Role Executive, CFO Office Staff, Reception Office Staff, Cleaning Doug Smith Which of the following should the analyst do NEXT? ОА. Ask the help desk to contact Diane Mayfair for a password reset.

Answer 1

Answer: (C) Check logs for activities by the dmayfair account

The dmayfair account feelssuspicisous becuase after many invalid password, its password got accecpted just when password of amyers got accepted. Also reception staff may be trying to get company's financial information using CFO account.