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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

A security analyst must preserve disk evidence from a running Amazon EC2 instance that is suspected of hosting malware. According to forensic best practices, which initial action will BEST capture the data while maintaining the chain of custody and preventing accidental modification of the original evidence?

  • Use the no-reboot option to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of the instance, then terminate the original instance to stop changes.

  • Stop the instance, detach all EBS volumes, and attach them to a separate forensic EC2 instance in the same account for analysis.

  • Install an up-to-date antivirus engine on the instance and perform a full malware scan before copying suspect files to Amazon S3.

  • Create an Amazon EBS snapshot of every attached volume from the AWS console and apply evidence tags before any other action.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
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