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Start Incident Handling And Response PracticeAn analyst creates a custom XQL query to investigate unusual PowerShell execution across endpoints. The query needs to filter out known administrative scripts based on a lookup list stored in XSIAM. Which XQL command is best suited to enrich or filter the event stream using a lookup table?
Explanation: The 'dedup' or 'filter' commands are useful, but enrichment and lookup matching against external lists in XSIAM XQL are performed using the 'lookup' command.
While investigating a potential lateral movement attempt, an analyst wants to review the raw authentication logs associated with the incident in XSIAM. Which XQL dataset should the analyst query to examine Windows logon events?
Explanation: The endpoint_raw dataset in XSIAM contains raw event data collected by Cortex agents, including Windows security event logs for authentication.
An analyst is writing an XQL query to search for failed login attempts followed within 5 minutes by a successful login from the same user account. Which XQL function should be used to correlate these sequential events within a timeframe?
Explanation: Sequence-based analysis or matching events across time intervals in XQL is efficiently handled using the 'alt' or sequence/stream processing logic or specific commands like 'seq'.
An XSIAM administrator is configuring a new automated playbook to execute when a high-severity phishing incident is created. Which integration component must be configured to allow the playbook to automatically extract and analyze URLs from incoming emails?
Explanation: Playbooks in Cortex XSIAM rely on Integration instances (such as Phishing or Email Security integrations) to perform automated actions like parsing and extracting artifacts.
An analyst writes an XQL query to calculate the frequency of failed logins per user over a 24-hour period and wants to filter out users with fewer than 5 failures. Which XQL clause should be used after the aggregation command to filter the aggregated results?
Explanation: In XQL, after an aggregation command such as 'comp count() by user', you filter the aggregated results using the 'filter' clause, not 'where'. The 'filter' clause operates on the output of the aggregation stage, allowing you to apply conditions like 'filter count > 5' to exclude users with fewer than 5 failures. This is the XQL equivalent of SQL's HAVING clause.
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