CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 Practice Question

A security analyst is reviewing the logs from an intrusion detection system (IDS) and needs to correlate these logs with network traffic to understand the scope of a suspected breach. Which of the following will provide the MOST useful information for correlating the time of the suspicious IDS alerts with the network traffic captured?

  • Application error messages captured by the system's event logs

  • Traffic flow metadata collected from network devices such as switches and routers

  • Device configuration settings from the network management system

  • User account changes logged in the authentication server records

CompTIA Security+ SY0-701
Security Operations
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