ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your organization is preparing the annual SOC 2 audit for a critical workload that was recently moved from an on-premises data center to a public IaaS provider. During audit planning you must decide how the auditors will obtain evidence for controls that are now implemented and operated by the cloud service provider (CSP), such as physical security and hypervisor hardening. Which action should receive the highest priority in the audit plan to ensure these out-of-scope controls are adequately covered?
Schedule credentialed vulnerability scans of the CSP's hypervisors to verify patch currency and configuration baselines.
Require each tenant in the CSP's environment to perform full backup-and-restore tests during the on-site audit window.
Request the CSP's latest independent attestation (such as a SOC 2 Type II report) and map its control coverage to the audit objectives.
Plan to extract random samples of the organization's production data from the cloud environment to test encryption at rest.
Because the customer no longer operates or can directly examine the CSP's physical and virtualization layers, the audit plan must rely on the CSP's existing third-party attestations. Obtaining and reviewing the provider's most recent independent assurance reports (for example, SOC 2 Type II or ISO/IEC 27001 certificates) and mapping the included control objectives to the customer's own audit requirements is the accepted way to gain reasonable assurance over controls that fall outside the customer's operational boundary. Attempting to scan the provider's hypervisors, demand production data sampling, or require every tenant to run restore tests would violate most provider policies, disrupt other tenants, and are generally infeasible in multi-tenant public clouds.
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