Question 1150
At Briarwood Property Group, a team reports that it corrected the following problem affecting tenant applications and facility services: A SOC deploys automated blocking for every anomaly score without false-positive control. Which observation BEST verifies that the correction actually worked?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A benign anomaly remains available for review while confirmed malicious behavior triggers the intended action. This is the decisive evidence for the original problem: A SOC deploys automated blocking for every anomaly score without false-positive control. It verifies that the intended corrective control—Use risk-weighted XDR/SIEM detections and approval or bounded response playbooks—works in the relevant environment; a completed change ticket alone would not prove the outcome at Briarwood Property Group.
Incorrect Answers
The analytic connects the suspect user session to its downstream protected resource access. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: A Splunk search detects suspicious sign-ins but cannot associate them with firewall flows to sensitive servers, usually addressed by Normalize entity identity and correlate authentication data with network traffic observations. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Briarwood Property Group was resolved. The specific required evidence is: A benign anomaly remains available for review while confirmed malicious behavior triggers the intended action.
A high-priority alert produces an owned case and records the authorized containment sequence. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: Security events are visible in Splunk but the response process has no case ownership or action tracking, usually addressed by Integrate alerts with defined incident management and SOAR actions including audit and escalation. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Briarwood Property Group was resolved. The specific required evidence is: A benign anomaly remains available for review while confirmed malicious behavior triggers the intended action.
The case links related alerts to a single affected endpoint with a coherent event timeline. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: Two SOC tools raise unrelated incidents for the same host because network and endpoint events lack common identity, usually addressed by Correlate endpoint, identity, and network telemetry through XDR or SIEM entity mapping. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Briarwood Property Group was resolved. The specific required evidence is: A benign anomaly remains available for review while confirmed malicious behavior triggers the intended action.