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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

Your security team must implement weekly vulnerability scans on more than 200 Amazon EC2 instances deployed across several VPCs. Host-based firewalls block most inbound traffic, and the team wants to avoid opening additional ports or creating extra inter-VPC network flows. Which solution satisfies the requirement while following AWS best practices for vulnerability management?

  • Export CloudTrail logs to Amazon Athena each day and run SQL queries to identify vulnerable software packages manually.

  • Turn on Amazon GuardDuty; its threat detection findings will include missing patches and software vulnerabilities on the EC2 fleet.

  • Enable Amazon Inspector for all EC2 instances so the existing SSM agent can perform agent-based vulnerability assessments without opening inbound ports.

  • Deploy a dedicated EC2 scanner in each VPC and schedule weekly nmap sweeps of every instance after allowing TCP ports 1-65535 through host firewalls.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
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