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If the primary concern is adversaries obtainingadministrator or elevated privileges, the first Cloud Identity Analyzer category to review isPrivilege Escalation. This category focuses on techniques and misconfigurations that allow attackers to gain higher-level permissions than initially granted.

Privilege escalation in cloud environments often involves overly permissive IAM roles, abuse of service principals, misconfigured trust relationships, or exploitation of identity federation mechanisms. CrowdStrike Cloud Identity Analyzer maps these behaviors to established attack frameworks and highlights identities that could be abused to gain admin-level access.

Other categories address different stages of the attack lifecycle.Executionfocuses on running malicious actions,Persistenceon maintaining access, andDefense Evasionon hiding activity. While all are important, privilege escalation represents the most direct path to full environment compromise.

Therefore, the correct starting point isPrivilege Escalation.

In Falcon Cloud Security, theRegistry assessment statuswidget provides visibility into the current state of container image assessments for connected registries. This widget displaysaggregate totals of assessed and unassessed images, allowing analysts to quickly determine whether images are being successfully scanned.

When investigating unassessed images, this widget is the primary starting point because it reflects real-time assessment coverage across all configured registry connections. It helps identify gaps caused by authentication failures, network restrictions, throttling, or configuration limits such as assessment age thresholds.

Other widgets provide narrower views.Image processingfocuses on images currently being scanned,Assessed imagesonly shows completed scans without highlighting gaps, andConnection statusreflects connectivity health but not assessment coverage.

CrowdStrike documentation and UI design emphasize the Registry assessment status widget as the authoritative summary for image assessment completeness. Therefore, the correct answer isRegistry assessment status.

The most efficient and CrowdStrike-recommended way to stop seeing vulnerabilities for older images is to use the“Stop assessing images older than (number) of days”setting in Image Assessment configuration.

This setting prevents Falcon Cloud Security from continuing to assess images beyond a defined age threshold—90 days in this case. By stopping assessment at the source, Falcon reduces noise, conserves assessment capacity, and focuses findings on images that are actively used or likely to be deployed.

Other approaches are inefficient or risky. Fusion workflows and manual hiding add operational overhead and do not stop assessments from occurring. Deleting images from registries may disrupt workflows and is outside Falcon’s control.

CrowdStrike best practices favorassessment-scoping controlsover post-processing suppression. Therefore, the correct answer isUse the Stop assessing images older than (number) of days setting.

The secure and recommended approach to validate whether firewall restrictions are causing CSPM failures is toconfirm that CrowdStrike’s documented IP addresses are allowlisted. Falcon Cloud Security relies on outbound API connectivity to cloud providers, and blocked traffic can disrupt asset inventory collection and IOM detection even if registration succeeds.

CrowdStrike publishes required IP ranges and endpoints for each cloud region. Verifying firewall rules against this documentation is alow-risk, best-practice troubleshooting stepthat preserves security controls while validating connectivity assumptions.

Opening firewalls broadly is insecure and unnecessary, and dismissing firewall-related causes without verification can delay resolution. Therefore, the correct answer isCheck that you have allowlisted the IP addresses provided in the public-facing CrowdStrike documentation.

When deploying theFalcon Kubernetes Admission Controller (KAC)using aHelm chart, access to CrowdStrike-hosted container images is required. These images are stored inCrowdStrike’s private container registry, which requires authentication.

To retrieve the Falcon KAC image, a validCrowdStrike API client key(client ID and secret) must be provided. This API credential allows Helm to authenticate to the Falcon registry and securely pull the required KAC image during deployment. Without valid API credentials, image retrieval fails, and the KAC deployment cannot complete successfully.

Other options listed do not satisfy this requirement. SENSOR_PLATFORM and FALCON_REGION are configuration parameters used during sensor installation but do not authenticate registry access. Docker itself is not sufficient, as authentication to the CrowdStrike registry is still required.

Therefore, anAPI client keyis mandatory to ensure successful retrieval of the Falcon KAC image during Helm-based deployment.

InCrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, theAccount Registrationsection is the authoritative location for monitoring thestatus of onboarded cloud accountsand identifyingdeployment or configuration issues.

FromCloud Security → Settings → Account Registration, security teams can view whether AWS, Azure, or GCP accounts are successfully connected, partially configured, or experiencing errors. This view highlights misconfigurations such as missing permissions, failed integrations, or incomplete setup steps that could prevent posture assessments or detections from functioning correctly.

Other settings areas serve different purposes: Automate focuses on remediation workflows, posture policies define compliance logic, and scan settings control assessment frequency. None provide direct visibility into onboarding health and deployment validation.

Therefore,Cloud security – Settings – Account registrationis the correct and verified answer.

To automate response actions when a vulnerability is discovered in a container image, CrowdStrike Falcon Fusion uses the triggerKubernetes and containers > Image assessment > Vulnerabilities. This trigger activates when Falcon identifies vulnerabilities during container image scanning and assessment.

Image assessment vulnerabilities occurpre-runtime, making this trigger ideal for shift-left security automation. Actions such as sending notifications, opening tickets, tagging images, or blocking deployments via policy enforcement can be automatically initiated before vulnerable images reach production.

TheContainer detectionstrigger applies to runtime events, not image vulnerabilities.Vulnerabilities user actiontriggers depend on manual interaction and are not suitable for automated detection-driven workflows.

By using the image assessment vulnerability trigger, organizations can integrate Falcon Cloud Security findings directly into CI/CD pipelines and remediation workflows, ensuring faster response and reduced risk exposure.

Therefore, the correct Fusion workflow trigger isKubernetes and containers > Image assessment > Vulnerabilities.