ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
A SaaS provider automatically stripes and replicates each customer's object data across three distinct geographic regions to improve durability. After onboarding the service, a U.S.-based healthcare company discovers that portions of its patient records now reside on storage nodes located in the EU and Asia-Pacific. From the standpoint of cloud data dispersion, which risk should the company address FIRST before continuing to store protected health information (PHI) in this service?
Reduced fault-tolerance because of a broader failure domain
Higher storage costs resulting from multi-region replication
Potential violation of data residency and sovereignty requirements imposed by foreign privacy laws
Increased read/write latency due to geographical distance from primary users
When cloud services disperse data across multiple jurisdictions, different national and regional privacy laws can suddenly apply. For a U.S. healthcare organization this may place HIPAA-regulated PHI under the scope of the EU GDPR or other foreign privacy regimes, potentially conflicting with existing compliance obligations and increasing legal exposure. While latency, availability, and cost are relevant operational considerations, ensuring that dispersed replicas do not violate data residency, sovereignty, and cross-border transfer rules is the most pressing risk because non-compliance can lead to significant penalties and legal action.
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