ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your organization just migrated its payment processing platform to a public IaaS provider. Senior management has asked the internal audit team to perform the first cloud-focused audit next quarter. According to generally accepted audit planning practices for cloud environments, which activity must be completed before any evidence is collected so the audit can be executed efficiently and avoid scope creep?
Perform an external vulnerability scan against the cloud-hosted payment environment.
Schedule on-site interviews with the provider's data center operations personnel.
Request a representative sample of virtual machine and firewall logs from the cloud service provider.
Map all relevant regulatory and contractual requirements to the shared-responsibility model agreed with the cloud service provider.
When planning a cloud audit, the auditor must first define and agree on the audit scope and applicable control objectives. In a cloud setting this is done by identifying the regulatory or contractual requirements (for example, PCI DSS for payment data) and mapping them to the specific responsibilities of the cloud service provider and the customer. Only after this scoping exercise is finished can the auditor decide which systems to examine, what evidence to request, and whom to interview. Scheduling interviews, collecting logs, or performing vulnerability scans before the scope and criteria are set risks wasting effort on irrelevant areas and omitting critical controls.
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