Question 40
At the Stonehaven cloud software developer, an operations team plans to recover an original password from a cryptographic digest stored in its database. Which setting or practice should be reviewed in future?
Explanation
Correct Answer
For the Stonehaven cloud software developer, this maintenance action preserves the fix: review password storage algorithms as security recommendations evolve. It should be revisited as the workload evolves.
Incorrect Answers
Review residual risk acceptance after changes to insurance or controls is not the primary recurring safeguard for this problem. The team should review password storage algorithms as security recommendations evolve. For the Stonehaven cloud software developer, the direct corrective action is to use properly salted one-way password hashing for password verification rather than reversible password storage.
This is a maintenance action for a different security or compliance situation, rather than the one that originally failed because a cryptographic hash is intended to support comparison and integrity checks rather than restore the original message. For the Stonehaven cloud software developer, the direct corrective action is to use properly salted one-way password hashing for password verification rather than reversible password storage.
The option would have the team review ownership and credentials for nonhuman identities periodically. For this situation, the preventive control should instead be to review password storage algorithms as security recommendations evolve. For the Stonehaven cloud software developer, the direct corrective action is to use properly salted one-way password hashing for password verification rather than reversible password storage.