Question 700
At the Nortonwood retail company, investigators see a malware alert but cannot determine the preceding processes and network connections on the endpoint. Which setting or practice should be reviewed in future?
Explanation
Correct Answer
For the Nortonwood retail company, this maintenance action preserves the fix: review timeline data retention and endpoint sensor health. It should be revisited as the workload evolves.
Incorrect Answers
Review exposure trends and stale findings each patch cycle is not the primary recurring safeguard for this problem. The team should review timeline data retention and endpoint sensor health. For the Nortonwood retail company, the direct corrective action is to use Defender for Endpoint device timeline and investigation views to trace relevant events.
This is a maintenance action for a different security or compliance situation, rather than the one that originally failed because device event history supplies chronological context not provided by a single alert title. For the Nortonwood retail company, the direct corrective action is to use Defender for Endpoint device timeline and investigation views to trace relevant events.
The option would have the team reevaluate attack paths after topology or permission changes. For this situation, the preventive control should instead be to review timeline data retention and endpoint sensor health. For the Nortonwood retail company, the direct corrective action is to use Defender for Endpoint device timeline and investigation views to trace relevant events.