ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your organization stores files in an AWS S3 data lake that synchronizes with several SaaS analytics platforms. To make sure encryption, retention, and sharing controls follow each object no matter where it is copied, the cloud security team adds a key-value pair such as "DataClass=Restricted" to every object and configures the SaaS tools to read that information from the object's metadata. Which type of data labeling approach is the team using?
Relying on inherited directory access control lists (ACLs) for classification
Inline data masking that removes sensitive fields before storage
Embedded watermarking of the document to show the classification level
External metadata tagging that stores the classification label as an object attribute
The team is attaching the label outside the file itself, as an attribute carried in the object's metadata (S3 object tags). Because the label is stored separately from the content yet travels with the object, it represents an external metadata-based labeling method. Watermarking embeds visible or hidden marks inside the file, data masking irreversibly alters the content, and directory ACLs control access at the folder level but are not portable labels carried with each object.
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