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SPLK-5002 · Question #11

The threat-hunting team has identified suspicious activity. An analyst manually creates a notable event using an event action to track the activity. How should a detection engineer ensure this…

The correct answer is B. Create a correlation search to produce notable events for the activity. To ensure that suspicious activity consistently generates findings in the future, the detection engineer should create a correlation search for the identified activity. This automates detection by continuously monitoring for the same pattern and producing notable events when it…

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Question

The threat-hunting team has identified suspicious activity. An analyst manually creates a notable event using an event action to track the activity. How should a detection engineer ensure this activity automatically produces findings in the future?

Options

  • ACreate a SOAR playbook to assign risk modifiers for events matching the activity.
  • BCreate a correlation search to produce notable events for the activity.
  • CCreate a risk modifier for events matching the activity.
  • DCreate a SOAR playbook to identify events matching the activity and assign an urgency.

How the community answered

(54 responses)
  • A
    6% (3)
  • B
    80% (43)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • D
    11% (6)

Explanation

To ensure that suspicious activity consistently generates findings in the future, the detection engineer should create a correlation search for the identified activity. This automates detection by continuously monitoring for the same pattern and producing notable events when it occurs again.

Topics

#correlation search#notable events#detection engineering#threat hunting

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