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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

A developer team is refactoring an internal web application to run on a public cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Security wants to ensure the database credentials required by the application are never checked into the Git repository or baked into container images. Which development practice best meets this requirement while following cloud development basics?

  • Store the credentials in a Kubernetes ConfigMap defined in the same infrastructure-as-code template as the deployment.

  • Base64-encode the credentials before committing them to the Git repository.

  • Hard-code the credentials in an environment variable inside the Dockerfile so the image is self-contained.

  • Retrieve the credentials at runtime from the cloud provider's managed secret store using short-lived tokens.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
Cloud Application Security
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