PCSE Practice Question: Managing Operations in a Cloud Solution Environment
A company is using Security Command Center (SCC) Standard tier and wants to detect threats like crypto mining attacks and anomalous IAM activity in their GCP environment. Which built-in service should they enable?
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Event Threat Detection
Event Threat Detection is a premium tier service that detects threats such as crypto mining and suspicious IAM activity. Security Health Analytics is misconfigurations. Web Security Scanner is for web apps. VM Threat Detection is also premium but for VMs.
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Event Threat Detection
Why this is correct
Event Threat Detection is a Premium SCC service that monitors logs for malicious activity, including crypto mining.
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Security Health Analytics
Why it's wrong here
Security Health Analytics detects misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, not active threats like crypto mining.
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Web Security Scanner
Why it's wrong here
Web Security Scanner finds vulnerabilities in web applications, not IAM anomalies.
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VM Threat Detection
Why it's wrong here
VM Threat Detection focuses on VM instances, but is also a Premium service; however, crypto mining detection is primarily Event Threat Detection.
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