ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
During a security review of a newly developed mobile-banking application, you learn that the PIN-entry function allows an unlimited number of attempts without delay or lockout. From a risk-classification perspective, how should this weakness be categorized?
A business risk-it primarily threatens customer trust and future revenue
A technical risk-it is a vulnerability in the application's design that an attacker could exploit
A compliance risk-it directly violates regulatory multifactor-authentication requirements
An operational risk-it mainly affects release and maintenance processes
A missing rate-limiting control is a flaw in the design and implementation of the software that could be exploited to guess users' PINs through brute force. Because the vulnerability resides in the technology itself-independent of broader organizational processes, finances, or reputation-it is considered a technical risk. The potential downstream effects of exploitation (such as account takeover, fraud, or reputational damage) would be business risks, but the defect that enables those consequences is squarely a technical one. The other options describe impacts or contexts (business, compliance, operational) rather than the underlying technical flaw.
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