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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

An operations team manages an Amazon EC2 Linux bastion host. A new security policy requires a host-based IDS that must (1) perform continuous log analysis for suspicious events, (2) provide real-time file integrity monitoring of /etc and /usr/bin, (3) forward alerts to the company's existing syslog-based SIEM, and (4) avoid installing any kernel-mode drivers that could violate AWS support policies. Which approach best meets these requirements with minimal additional tooling?

  • Rely on AWS CloudTrail and Amazon GuardDuty to detect unauthorized file changes and suspicious host log entries on the EC2 instance.

  • Enable VPC traffic mirroring to send instance traffic to a network IDS appliance that inspects packets for malicious signatures.

  • Install an OSSEC agent on the instance, enable its syscheck and logcollector modules, and configure OSSEC to forward alerts over syslog to the SIEM.

  • Schedule cron jobs to run md5sum on critical directories and upload the results to Amazon S3 for daily review with Amazon Athena queries.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
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