AP Cybersecurity Unit 2 Lesson 4 Exercise 1

Unit 2 • 2.4 • Exercise 1

Exercise 1 — Placing Detection Controls

6 questions — Decide what watches Delmar, and where it goes

Score: 0 / 0 Predict the answer before selecting an option
Client Organization
Delmar Applied Optics

Xtensr Research Labs has closed on Delmar Applied Optics. The risk assessment is finished and the $150,000 control plan from the last exercise is funded and installed: a card reader, door contact and access control vestibule at the finished-lens vault; a locked enclosure with a tamper switch around the lobby badge controller; the engineering file server relocated out of the unlocked utility closet into a locked cabinet; port blockers and a privacy screen on the reception PC; a UPS in the testing bay; flood barriers and raised racking in the below-grade optics bay. Prevention is bought. Your job now is monitoring — deciding what would detect an attack on this building, and where each control has to sit to do it.

Q1 Camera Tamper Resistance
Delmar’s installer submits this note for the corridor camera outside the finished-lens vault: “Mount at 5 ft on the corridor wall, about 20 ft back from the vault door and angled at it, on a hand-adjustable swivel bracket so the lens can be re-aimed during cleaning.” Which statement identifies the most serious weakness in this placement?
Q2 Vestibule as a Detection Layer
The funded plan puts an access control vestibule at the finished-lens vault entry, alongside the card reader and door contact. Consider three claims about what the vestibule contributes to detecting physical attacks:

  I. It stops a second person from entering on one badge presentation, whether or not the badge holder agreed to it.
  II. It makes each vault entry attributable to a single badge, so the door log narrows down who was inside during the window a lens went missing.
  III. It removes the need to monitor the corridor camera, because no unauthorized person can reach the vault door.

Which claims are correct?
Q3 Guard Placement
Delmar can fund one security officer for the overnight shift. The vault already has a card reader, door contact, vestibule and an interior motion sensor; the lobby badge-controller cabinet has a locked enclosure and a tamper switch; the ground-floor optics bay sits below street grade with exterior windows at sidewalk level and no funded monitoring. Which assignment makes the best use of the single officer?
Q4 Recording Retention
Delmar’s corridor and lobby cameras record to a unit that overwrites the oldest footage after 72 hours. Finished lenses are counted once a month, and a shortage found in the March count is the first sign anything was taken. Which change would do the most to make the camera system useful to that investigation?
Q5 Reviewing a Monitoring Plan
One row of Delmar’s draft monitoring plan is below. Exactly one field is wrong.

  Asset: engineering file server, locked cabinet in the utility closet
  Detection control: door contact on the closet door, reporting to the badge system
  Alert goes to: the overnight monitoring service
  Expected response: an officer checks the closet on the next scheduled patrol pass
  Retention: contact events kept 90 days

Which correction fixes the field that is actually wrong?
Q6 Alert Routing and Response
The vault’s interior motion sensor is installed and armed overnight. As configured, an activation sends an email to the facilities shared inbox, which is read when the office opens. The building is unstaffed from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Which change does the most to make this sensor a working detection control rather than a record?
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