What is key feature of Cognitive Threat Analytics?

Question

Options

• AIt enables safe email usage with event Analytics
• BIt improves threat detection over time with machine learning
• CIt enhances anonymity with URL filtering
• DIt enables greater endpoint device profiling intelligence with entity modeling

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  92% (56)
• C
  5% (3)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) is a Cisco security technology that uses behavioral modeling and machine learning to detect threats by analyzing network traffic patterns - and crucially, it improves its detection accuracy over time as it learns from new data, making B correct.

• A is wrong because safe email usage with event analytics describes features more aligned with Cisco Email Security or similar email gateway solutions, not CTA.
• C is wrong because URL filtering enhances web security (e.g., Cisco Umbrella or Web Security Appliance), not anonymity, and is unrelated to CTA's core function.
• D is wrong because endpoint device profiling with entity modeling better describes technologies like Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine) or network access control solutions.

Memory tip: Think of the word "Cognitive" - cognition involves learning and thinking. CTA "thinks" by using machine learning that gets smarter over time, just like a brain that learns from experience.

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