ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
A payment clearing platform supporting same-day settlements is categorized High for availability under FIPS 199. The ISSO must recommend a primary safeguard to satisfy this objective. Which control most directly addresses the stated availability requirement?
Deploy redundant, geographically dispersed servers with automatic fail-over.
Require multi-factor authentication for operator console access.
Apply digital signatures to settlement files before transmission.
Encrypt all transaction data with AES-256 while stored in databases.
Ensuring availability means the system remains accessible to authorized users even when components fail or workloads spike. Redundant, geographically separated infrastructure with automatic fail-over provides continuous service by eliminating a single point of failure, directly supporting the High availability objective. The other options strengthen confidentiality or integrity (encryption, digital signatures, multi-factor authentication) but do not, by themselves, keep the system online if a site or server becomes unreachable.
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