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Exam CCSP topic 1 question 11 discussion

Actual exam question from ISC's CCSP
Question #: 11
Topic #: 1
[All CCSP Questions]

Which of the following approaches would NOT be considered sufficient to meet the requirements of secure data destruction within a cloud environment?

  • A. Cryptographic erasure
  • B. Zeroing
  • C. Overwriting
  • D. Deletion
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
Deletion merely removes the pointers to data on a system; it does nothing to actually remove and sanitize the data. As such, the data remains in a recoverable state, and more secure methods are needed to ensure it has been destroyed and is not recoverable by another party.

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ArizonaClassics
Highly Voted 4 years, 3 months ago
Agreed with D
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Seke
Highly Voted 2 years, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: C
Chapter 3: Data Classification (CCSP Official Study Guide) Method 1: Physical Destruction of Media and Hardware Any hardware or portable media containing the data in question can be destroyed by burning, melting, impact (beating, drilling, grinding, and so forth), or industrial shredding. This is the preferred method of sanitization, since the data is physically unrecoverable. Method 2:Degaussing This involves applying strong magnetic fields to the hardware and media where the data resides, effectively making them blank. It does not work with solid-state drives. Method 3:Overwriting Multiple passes of random characters are written to the storage areas (particular disk sectors) where the data resides, with a final pass of all zeroes or ones. This can be extremely time-consuming for large storage areas. Method 4:Cryptoshredding (AKA Cryptographic Erasure) This involves encrypting the data with a strong encryption engine, and then taking the keys generated in that process, encrypting them with a different encryption engine, and destroying the keys.
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BuckLee
Most Recent 7 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D for delete
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dmo_d
11 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D is correct. All other options will likely have less data remanence.
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ikamalbhatt
12 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D is correct
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Pika26
1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: D
D is correct.
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secisfun
1 year, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: D
Agree with D
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nigthwish
1 year, 7 months ago
The answer is D.
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ay_caramba24
1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D is the correct answer.
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ggx
1 year, 11 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D is the right answer
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Ramnik
3 years, 1 month ago
D is correct. Data Remanence is a concern here.
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RBa001
3 years, 9 months ago
This is a negative Question. Option D is the least preferred method and Option A is the most preferred. Thus Correct answer is Option D
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guest999
3 years, 10 months ago
The only INCORRECT answer is A. Either the question is incorrect or there should be multiple answers. Because B,C & D are correct in a Cloud environment.
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evilwizardington
3 years, 2 months ago
Nope. In cloud environments, usually you dont have ways to overwrite the information at physical level, so the best way is to use cryptographic erasure. And the worst is just trusting the Deletion features, because it does not actually delete the information; only the pointers to it.
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vitoscotorro
4 years, 2 months ago
D seems right
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