A SOC analyst at an e-commerce firm investigates one host that raised an intrusion alert, then flagged a malware download, then opened a suspicious follow-up connection within a five-minute window. Paging through separate event lists slows the timeline work down. Which FMC view puts that host's connection, intrusion, file and malware entries on one screen?
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Short Explanation
The unified events view brings connection, intrusion, file, and malware entries together so you can review a host's activity in one place.
Full Explanation
The unified events view is correct because it brings different event types into one filterable view, allowing the analyst to follow a host’s activity across connection, intrusion, file, and malware records without switching between separate lists. Filtering by the affected host address and the five-minute incident window puts the relevant entries together so their sequence can be reviewed. The connection-events approach is narrower: sorting by source host helps inspect flows sent by the machine, but that page does not provide the intrusion, file, and malware entries alongside them. A risk report is a high-level summary of security activity, not a host-specific, short-window event timeline. The correlation-events approach shows correlation rules that fired and the alerts they generated, rather than the underlying connection, intrusion, file, and malware records needed for this investigation. Exam caveat: the unified view can show only events that were actually logged and retained, so a missing entry does not by itself prove the activity did not occur. Practical check: apply the host-address and time-window filters, then confirm the results include the relevant event types and cover the full five-minute interval.