Question 70
At the Yorkport payments platform, a cloud team approves a hardened reference configuration but leaves later deployment changes unexamined. Which explanation best accounts for the concern?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The strongest explanation is that a documented baseline only reduces risk when deployed systems remain aligned with it. This accounts for the outcome and supports the action to monitor deployed settings for deviation from the approved secure baseline. This result addresses the stated challenge at the Yorkport payments platform.
Incorrect Answers
Although standing excessive privilege increases the possible impact of a compromised identity, the presented symptoms do not support that as the primary cause; they indicate that a documented baseline only reduces risk when deployed systems remain aligned with it. For the Yorkport payments platform, the direct corrective action is to monitor deployed settings for deviation from the approved secure baseline.
This explanation belongs to a different security or compliance situation. In this case, the observable gap is that a documented baseline only reduces risk when deployed systems remain aligned with it. For the Yorkport payments platform, the direct corrective action is to monitor deployed settings for deviation from the approved secure baseline.
Central identity providers can supply consistent authentication and trust relationships to multiple relying applications. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Yorkport payments platform instead points to the fact that a documented baseline only reduces risk when deployed systems remain aligned with it.