ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
Your SaaS platform allows customers to upload short Python plugins that analyze their own datasets at runtime. Security policy states that
a plugin must never be able to touch the underlying host OS or another tenant's data,
the execution environment must be destroyed immediately after the plugin finishes, and
the solution must keep resource overhead low enough to support thousands of daily plugin runs. Which sandboxing approach best satisfies all three requirements?
Run plugins within a chroot jail inside the main application process, relying on file permissions for separation.
Create a dedicated virtual machine for every plugin execution and keep it powered on for 24 hours before re-use to amortize costs.
Launch each plugin in an ephemeral container that uses Linux namespaces, cgroups, and a seccomp profile to restrict system calls.
Place the analysis service in a private subnet with egress blocked and keep all plugins running under the same host user account.
Running each plugin inside a short-lived container delivers process, network, and filesystem isolation through Linux namespaces and cgroups while sharing the host kernel, so it imposes far less overhead than provisioning a separate VM for every execution. Containers can be started and torn down in seconds, ensuring the environment is removed as soon as the plugin completes. A simple chroot jail or rely-only-on-ACL solution still exposes the host kernel and other processes, while full VMs provide strong isolation but consume far more memory and startup time, making them impractical for large numbers of brief executions.
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