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CAS-005 · Question #21

A security engineer wants to reduce the attack surface of a public-facing containerized application. Which of the following will best reduce the application's privilege escalation attack surface?

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Submitted by renata2k· Mar 6, 2026Security Engineering

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A security engineer wants to reduce the attack surface of a public-facing containerized application. Which of the following will best reduce the application's privilege escalation attack surface?

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  • AImplementing the following commands in the Dockerfile:
  • BInstalling an EDR on the container's host, with reporting configured to log to a centralized SIEM,
  • CDesigning a muiticontainer solution, with one set of containers that runs the mam application, and
  • DRunning the container in an isolated network and placing a load balancer in a public-facing

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