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To detect three failed login attempts within three minutes, you must set the aggregate count to 3 in the subpattern and the time window to 180 seconds in the rule condition. This ensures the rule triggers only if three or more failed logins occur in that timeframe.

The correct answer is A because three minutes equals 180 seconds, and the aggregate threshold must be set to three matching events. The FortiSIEM Study Guide explains that rule conditions specify event attributes and thresholds that trigger the rule and create an incident. It further states that the time window defines the period within which the subpattern must match for the rule condition to be satisfied. The Study Guide’s single-subpattern rule example shows the same principle: the condition has a configured time window, and the Aggregate section uses a function such as COUNT(Matched Events) to require a minimum number of matching events. In this question, the analyst wants the rule to trigger when three failed login attempts happen within three minutes . Therefore, the rule condition time window must be 180 seconds , and the aggregate count must be 3 . A 90-second window would detect only events inside one and a half minutes, not the required three minutes. An aggregate count of 2 would trigger too early because the requirement is three failed attempts.