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ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question

Your team uses a self-hosted CI/CD platform to nightly deploy container images into several cloud accounts. The pipeline stores one long-lived API token with full administrator rights on every target account. A security review flagged this as a serious management-plane risk and asked you to redesign authentication while still supporting fully unattended deployments. Which action best aligns with management-plane security best practices and most limits blast radius if the runner is breached?

  • Keep the existing token but rotate it every 90 days in accordance with the corporate password policy.

  • Encrypt the existing administrator token with the cloud provider's key management service and decrypt it at runtime.

  • Move the CI/CD server into a private subnet and restrict all inbound traffic to a VPN connection.

  • Replace the static token with short-lived, role-based credentials obtained through an identity-federation workflow and scoped to only the deployment actions required.

ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
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