Question 320
A web application produces success responses but has a sharp increase in failed privileged actions. Which source provides the most actionable identity context?
Explanation
Correct Answer
App-level decisions identify who attempted which privileged action despite successful HTTP sessions. Log, flow, endpoint and event sources observe different aspects of activity; reliable detection requires the right telemetry, context and timestamps. The case turns on has a sharp increase in failed privileged actions; “Application authorization and audit logs with principal and resource fields” addresses that precise condition. “Only aggregate Internet bandwidth reports” is not equivalent because byte totals do not record the denied resource-level operation.
Incorrect Answers
Environmental sensors do not identify application authorization failures. Telemetry provides evidence and may trigger a response; it does not automatically deny a transaction or remediate its cause. In the reported situation, has a sharp increase in failed privileged actions. The effective mechanism is “Application authorization and audit logs with principal and resource fields”: app-level decisions identify who attempted which privileged action despite successful HTTP sessions.
Printer consumables do not explain suspicious application operations. The evidence is has a sharp increase in failed privileged actions. Log, flow, endpoint and event sources observe different aspects of activity; reliable detection requires the right telemetry, context and timestamps. By contrast, “Application authorization and audit logs with principal and resource fields” operates on the specific concern: app-level decisions identify who attempted which privileged action despite successful HTTP sessions.
Byte totals do not record the denied resource-level operation. Telemetry provides evidence and may trigger a response; it does not automatically deny a transaction or remediate its cause. Here the decisive fact is has a sharp increase in failed privileged actions. “Application authorization and audit logs with principal and resource fields” matches that requirement because app-level decisions identify who attempted which privileged action despite successful HTTP sessions.






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