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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

A cloud development team must persist user passwords for a new public REST API that will run on a PaaS environment. To satisfy OWASP ASVS Level 2 requirements for credential storage while keeping operational overhead low, which implementation choice is MOST appropriate?

  • Save passwords in plaintext but restrict database access to the application account only.

  • Hash each password with MD5 and append a static salt value before saving.

  • Encrypt each password with AES-256 in ECB mode and keep the key hard-coded in the application.

  • Store each password as a bcrypt hash with a unique random salt and a work factor of at least 12.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
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