SC-200 Practice Question 3811

Exam: SC-200
Domain: Respond to security incidents
Difficulty: medium
You are investigating an alert where an attacker ran Mimikatz to dump credentials on a domain member server. Which Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) rule is specifically designed to block this activity in memory?

Answer Options

A
Block credential stealing from the Windows LSASS subsystem
B
Block Adobe Reader from creating child processes
C
Block untrusted and unsigned processes that run from USB
D
Block JavaScript or VBScript from launching downloaded executable content

Correct Answer

A: Block credential stealing from the Windows LSASS subsystem

Explanation

"Block credential stealing from the Windows local security authority subsystem (lsass.exe)" prevents processes from opening LSASS memory handles to steal NTLM/Kerberos secrets.