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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

A security architect is designing an on-premises OpenStack deployment. Corporate policy states that every compute host must validate the integrity of its BIOS, bootloader, and type-1 hypervisor at power-on, and must be able to prove its trusted state to the cloud controller before any tenant workloads are started. The team wants to use the cryptographic chip that is already soldered onto most enterprise server motherboards and avoid adding external devices. Which mechanism BEST satisfies these requirements?

  • Use self-encrypting drives (SEDs) that automatically wipe keys on reboot to prevent unauthorized boot tampering.

  • Deploy Network Access Control (NAC) using 802.1X to authenticate servers before they join the management VLAN.

  • Implement a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on each host and enable secure/measured boot with remote attestation.

  • Install a dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) cluster to store encryption keys for the hypervisor.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
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