ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
A development team is classifying a relational database table that stores customer names, postal addresses, and payment-card details. Which statement most accurately reflects how structured data classification should guide the choice of protection mechanisms for this table?
Row-level permissions are unnecessary once full-disk encryption is enabled, so the entire table can share a single classification label.
Because the schema is fixed, classification tags can be applied down to the column level, enabling field-level encryption and granular access control for highly sensitive values.
Structured data stored in tables is inherently less risky than unstructured files, so it is usually classified as public by default.
Classification labels for structured data must be stored only in a separate unstructured metadata repository and cannot reside inside the database catalog.
Because the data reside in a fixed schema, each column can be tagged with a classification label (for example, Restricted for the card-number column and Internal for the address column). Database engines can then enforce controls-such as field-level encryption or column-level access permissions-based on those tags. Merely encrypting the entire disk does not remove the need for fine-grained controls, and structured data that contains payment information is not automatically public or low-risk. Although metadata repositories can be used, the labels can reside inside the database catalog, so they do not have to be stored externally.
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