Exam SY0-701 Topic 1 Question 91 Discussion

Actual exam question for CompTIA's SY0-701 exam
Question #: 91
Topic #: 1
A security analyst receives an alert from a corporate endpoint used by employees to issue visitor badges. The alert contains the following details:

Which of the following best describes the indicator that triggered the alert?

Suggested Answer: B Vote an answer

The activity described in the table, where multiple connection attempts are made on port 445 (used for SMB services), suggests a brute-force attack. The attacker likely used automated methods to guess credentials, causing multiple failures. Such attempts are a hallmark of brute- force attacks targeting shared resources.

by Haley at Jul 31, 2025, 05:49 PM

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