ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
During a scheduled baseline review, storage administrators propose reducing security log retention on production servers from 90 days to 30 days to relieve disk-space pressure. As the security control assessor, what is the most appropriate first step to evaluate the impact of this baseline revision?
Submit a change request to the Change Control Board to obtain formal approval for the new setting.
Review legal, regulatory, and internal policy requirements to verify that a 30-day retention period remains compliant.
Deploy the 30-day retention configuration in the production environment to validate that logging continues to function.
Archive existing logs off-site and purge local log files to free disk space before the retention change takes effect.
The initial task when a baseline control setting is altered is to analyze how the new value affects the organization's risk posture and compliance obligations. Comparing the shorter retention period to statutory, regulatory, contractual, and internal policy requirements determines whether the change would introduce non-compliance or unacceptable risk. Only after this impact analysis is complete should the assessor open a formal change request, schedule testing, or perform any operational actions such as purging logs. Jumping directly to implementation or maintenance activities without confirming that requirements are still met could result in audit findings or loss of forensic evidence.
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