Question 490
At the Dunbridge property management business, an application places a database password in an unencrypted deployment script checked into source control. Which explanation best accounts for the concern?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The problem stems from the fact that a specialized secrets service reduces exposure of credentials otherwise embedded in application files. A correct solution would store and retrieve the database secret from Azure Key Vault under restricted workload identity access and check that the deployed app reads its approved secret from Key Vault and repository scans find no active credential. This result addresses the stated challenge at the Dunbridge property management business.
Incorrect Answers
The case does not describe the failure mode involving azure waf sql injection. Its core issue is that a specialized secrets service reduces exposure of credentials otherwise embedded in application files. For the Dunbridge property management business, the direct corrective action is to store and retrieve the database secret from Azure Key Vault under restricted workload identity access.
This explanation belongs to a different security or compliance situation. In this case, the observable gap is that a specialized secrets service reduces exposure of credentials otherwise embedded in application files. For the Dunbridge property management business, the direct corrective action is to store and retrieve the database secret from Azure Key Vault under restricted workload identity access.
Cloud workload protection provides service-specific threat signals beyond baseline security posture. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Dunbridge property management business instead points to the fact that a specialized secrets service reduces exposure of credentials otherwise embedded in application files.