What are three key drivers of today's security threat landscape? (Choose three.)

Question

Options

• AIncreasing sophistication
• BGrowth of Botnets
• CGrowing ecosystem
• DDecreasing 3rd party applications
• EExpanding complexity
• FDecreasing ecosystem

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  90% (28)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Botnets (B), the growing ecosystem (C), and expanding complexity (E) represent three foundational pillars driving today's threat landscape according to the security framework this question tests. Botnets have scaled massively, enabling distributed attacks that overwhelm defenses; the growing ecosystem refers to the expanding number of threat actors, tools, and dark-web marketplaces that lower the barrier to launching attacks; and expanding complexity stems from increasingly interconnected systems, cloud environments, and IoT devices that multiply attack surfaces.

Why the distractors are wrong: Option A (Increasing sophistication) is a real phenomenon but not one of the three named drivers in this specific framework - sophistication is a characteristic of individual attacks, not a structural driver of the landscape itself. Option D (Decreasing 3rd-party applications) is the opposite of reality - third-party software is growing rapidly and introduces more supply chain risk, not less. Option F (Decreasing ecosystem) directly contradicts the correct answer C; the threat ecosystem is expanding, not shrinking.

Memory tip: Use the acronym BCE - think "Bad Complexity Expands" - Botnets grow, Cyber ecosystem grows, Expanding complexity. The two "Decreasing" options (D and F) should be immediately eliminated since the security landscape is universally acknowledged to be growing in scale and scope, not shrinking.

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