ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
During a post-release penetration test, your team confirms that a customer-facing API endpoint is vulnerable to SQL injection. The developers immediately refactor the data-access layer to use parameterized queries, add input-validation unit tests, and push a hotfix into production. From a risk-treatment perspective, which approach have they taken?
Mitigate the risk by adding a compensating web application firewall rule
Transfer the risk by obtaining cyber-liability insurance coverage
Accept the risk because the affected functionality is rarely used
Remediate the vulnerability by correcting the code and redeploying the application
By changing the data-access layer to use parameterized queries and adding unit tests, the team has removed the underlying SQL-injection flaw rather than simply reducing its likelihood or impact. This is an example of remediation-directly fixing the root cause. A web application firewall rule would only mitigate the risk, leaving the vulnerable code in place. Taking no action would be risk acceptance, and purchasing cyber-liability insurance would be risk transfer. Correcting the code itself is therefore classified as remediation.
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