ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your organization stores customer purchase records in a cloud object storage bucket. Financial regulations require you to keep each record for exactly seven years after the related account is closed, and then erase it within 30 days. You have been asked to draft the cloud data retention policy. Which element is the most critical to include to ensure the policy directly satisfies this requirement?
Procedures for performing weekly anti-malware scans on all objects in the bucket
A clear definition of the event that starts the retention clock and the exact seven-year retention period for the records
A schedule mandating rotation of encryption keys every 12 months for the storage bucket
Specifications for replicating the bucket to a second region to improve durability
A sound data retention policy must state exactly when the retention period begins and how long data must be held. By defining the trigger event (the account-closure date) and the required seven-year period, the policy can be enforced through automation rules or lifecycle configurations and audited for compliance. Encryption key rotation schedules, replication strategies, and malware scans are all important security or resiliency controls, but none of them establish the mandatory timeframe for keeping and subsequently deleting the regulated data; therefore, they do not by themselves ensure compliance with the stated retention obligation.
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