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ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question

During a security assessment of a cloud-based HR application, you learn that employee salary data is sent to an external payroll processor over the public Internet. Which control would best ensure confidentiality of that data while it is in transit?

  • Require multi-factor authentication for all payroll processor user accounts.

  • Perform daily file integrity monitoring using cryptographic hashes.

  • Provision redundant network circuits between the HR application and the payroll processor.

  • Establish Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 or higher encryption for all sessions between the systems.

ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC)
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