Oracle Exam 1Z0-997 Topic 12 Question 19 Discussion

Actual exam question for Oracle's 1Z0-997 exam

Question #: 19
Topic #: 12

A hospital in Austin has hosted its web based medical records portal entirely In Oracle cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using Compute Instances for its web-tier and DB system database for its data tier. To validate compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA), the security professional to check their systems it was found that there are a lot of unauthorized coming requests coming from a set of IP addresses originating from a country in Southeast Asia.

Which option can mitigate this type of attack?

ABlock the attacking IP address by creating by Network Security Group rule to deny access to the compute Instance where the web server Is running

BBlock the attacking IP address by implementing a OCI Web Application Firewall policy using Access Control Rules

CMitigate the attack by changing the Route fable to redirect the unauthorized traffic to a dummy Compute instance

DBlock the attacking IP address by creating a Security List rule to deny access to the subnet where the web server Is running

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Suggested Answer: B

WAF can protect any internet facing endpoint, providing consistent rule enforcement across a customer's applications.

WAF provides you with the ability to create and manage rules for internet threats including

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection and other OWASP-defined vulnerabilities. Unwanted bots can be mitigated while tactically allowed desirable bots to enter. Access rules can limit based on geography or the signature of the request.

As a WAF administrator you can define explicit actions for requests that meet various

conditions. Conditions use various operations and regular expressions. A rule action can be

set to log and allow, detect, or block requests

by Kattie at May 07, 2022, 01:00 AM

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