Question 110
At the Elmhurst recruitment company, a reporting tool receives write permissions although its only function is to display records. What risk should the team identify as the primary issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This identifies the root issue: authorization controls permitted actions and excessive write rights are not necessary for a read-only requirement. At the Elmhurst recruitment company, the team should therefore grant a resource-scoped read permission that matches the application's approved operations.
Incorrect Answers
This explanation belongs to a different security or compliance situation. In this case, the observable gap is that authorization controls permitted actions and excessive write rights are not necessary for a read-only requirement. For the Elmhurst recruitment company, the direct corrective action is to grant a resource-scoped read permission that matches the application's approved operations.
The proposed cause is relevant to security baseline drift, but it does not explain why authorization controls permitted actions and excessive write rights are not necessary for a read-only requirement in the reported case. For the Elmhurst recruitment company, the direct corrective action is to grant a resource-scoped read permission that matches the application's approved operations.
Availability concerns timely access to systems and data whereas confidentiality concerns unauthorized disclosure. That is not the mechanism that accounts for the stated failure at the Elmhurst recruitment company.