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ISC2 CISSP Practice Question

During a quarterly security review, a financial services company discovers that a legacy payment application cannot support the mandated full-disk encryption control without causing system instability. To maintain service availability, the CISO invokes the organization's documented security exception handling process. Which activity BEST captures the primary purpose of this process?

  • Compile audit evidence to address compliance findings from external regulators

  • Trigger the incident response plan to contain and eradicate the vulnerability

  • Record unusual events detected by the vulnerability scanner for root-cause analysis

  • Document and track the deviation from policy, assess risk, and obtain approval with compensating controls

ISC2 CISSP
Security Assessment and Testing
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