ISC2 Governance, Risk and Compliance (CGRC) Practice Question
Your organization has migrated all data and functionality from an on-premise payroll application to a new cloud service and is now executing the approved decommissioning plan for the retired system. To meet the requirement to terminate access for all users and minimize residual risk, what should the security team do first after the system is removed from production service?
Disable or delete every user and administrator account in all identity stores tied to the payroll system.
Transfer the physical servers to the organization's approved e-waste recycling vendor.
Begin DoD-compliant wiping of the payroll servers' hard drives prior to hardware disposal.
Remove the application's build artifacts and deployment scripts from the configuration-management repository.
Immediately disabling or removing every user and administrator account associated with the retired application eliminates any possibility that someone could still authenticate to the system. Cutting off all logical access is the primary control for preventing unauthorized use or data exposure once the asset is no longer in production. While hardware disposal, media sanitization, and archiving configuration items are also required parts of a decommissioning plan, they can safely follow only after all credentials have been revoked or deleted. If access remains active, even a supposedly offline or soon-to-be-disposed server could be powered on and exploited, undermining the intent of decommissioning.
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