Question 780
Consider the following Security Fabric analytics issue: A compliance team needs automatic email delivery of a completed daily report, but report scheduling is enabled and notifications remain disabled. Which ongoing safeguard best addresses the original risk?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Test notification delivery whenever report recipient groups change. This long-term control addresses the recurring risk. The technical reason is: Report generation scheduling and notification delivery are distinct settings that must both be configured. A later acceptance test still needs to confirm: The scheduled report completes and arrives in the intended mailbox without manual download.
Incorrect Answers
This safeguard, “Include incident ID and report-period confirmation in attachment procedures”, reduces a different source-defined risk: An incident analysis must include a relevant threat report as supporting evidence, but the team only emails the report to a general operations mailbox. That risk depends on: Attaching the report to its incident ties a point-in-time analytical artifact to the tracked case. The recurring problem here is a compliance team needs automatic email delivery of a completed daily report, but report scheduling is enabled and notifications remain disabled. The originally selected control “Test notification delivery whenever report recipient groups change” is more specific because report generation scheduling and notification delivery are distinct settings that must both be configured.
This safeguard, “Specify consolidation requirements before selecting report output type”, reduces a different source-defined risk: A regional CISO wants one combined report for three sites but receives three separate files after enabling per-device output. That risk depends on: Single/group output consolidates selected sources rather than producing one file per device. The recurring problem here is a compliance team needs automatic email delivery of a completed daily report, but report scheduling is enabled and notifications remain disabled. The originally selected control “Test notification delivery whenever report recipient groups change” is more specific because report generation scheduling and notification delivery are distinct settings that must both be configured.
This safeguard, “Review report timing against database resource and log-arrival baselines”, reduces a different source-defined risk: An analyst schedules a heavy historical report during the same hour as peak ingestion and needs an appropriate performance plan. That risk depends on: Report scheduling and caching affect compute contention; caching is not automatically appropriate for every query. The recurring problem here is a compliance team needs automatic email delivery of a completed daily report, but report scheduling is enabled and notifications remain disabled. The originally selected control “Test notification delivery whenever report recipient groups change” is more specific because report generation scheduling and notification delivery are distinct settings that must both be configured.