ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
Your agency must demonstrate continuous monitoring of personnel activities to an external auditor. Access logs already flow to a central SIEM, but terminated employees sometimes retain active privileged accounts for several days. Which additional control would best close this compliance gap?
Schedule weekly vulnerability scans of all employee workstations.
Extend firewall log retention from 30 to 90 days for historical analysis.
Implement an automated feed from the HR system to the IAM solution so account status changes instantly update or disable user privileges.
Enforce a policy requiring administrators to change shared root passwords every 60 days.
Automating the exchange of personnel status between the human resources (HR) system and the identity and access management (IAM) platform immediately disables or adjusts accounts when a hire, transfer, or termination is recorded. This control directly links authoritative personnel data to logical access, ensuring that only current, authorized users retain system privileges. Weekly workstation vulnerability scans, longer firewall-log retention, and scheduled password changes improve security in other areas but do not continuously reconcile user accounts with employment status, leaving the compliance gap unresolved.
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