ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your SOC dashboards display hundreds of Amazon GuardDuty port-scan findings every day from Amazon Inspector's public scanning ranges. Analysts have confirmed these events are expected and non-actionable, yet they obscure truly malicious activity. To apply a noise-reduction approach while preserving anomaly detection, what is the MOST appropriate action?
Schedule a daily script that permanently deletes all port-scan findings from GuardDuty to keep the console clean.
Reduce the GuardDuty finding aggregation frequency so that duplicate findings are combined into a single event.
Create a GuardDuty filter with an archive rule that suppresses the known benign findings and forward only high-severity events to the SIEM.
Disable GuardDuty for the affected accounts and rely solely on VPC Flow Logs for threat detection.
Noise reduction keeps monitoring focused on actionable events without losing the ability to detect real threats. GuardDuty filters with archive rules let analysts suppress findings that match specific criteria (for example, a port-scan coming from known scanner IP ranges). The finding is still stored and can be reinstated later, but it is no longer surfaced to the SOC or forwarded to the SIEM, reducing noise. Disabling GuardDuty removes critical detections entirely, defeating the purpose. Changing aggregation frequency does not stop the findings from appearing; it only groups them. Deleting findings each day hides data permanently and eliminates the ability to review historical patterns, violating evidentiary and forensic best practices.
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