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?
Encrypt all transaction data with AES-256 while stored in databases.
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.
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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