ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
During a sprint, your DevOps team uses a CI/CD pipeline with automated static code analysis and software-composition analysis (SCA). As the security lead, you must add break/build criteria to stop promotion whenever serious security defects are detected, yet still give developers rapid feedback. Which action BEST meets this requirement?
Configure the CI job to fail automatically when static analysis or SCA identifies any high-severity vulnerability, preventing the build from moving forward.
Allow deployment to production but rely on a runtime application self-protection (RASP) tool to block exploitation while developers create patches.
Require the product owner to review and approve every merge request after manually checking security scan reports.
Run a comprehensive dynamic penetration test against the staging environment each weekend and halt further deployments until findings are resolved.
Placing an automated quality gate in the continuous-integration (CI) job that fails the build when static code analysis or SCA reports a high-severity vulnerability enforces break/build criteria exactly where it has the greatest effect. The failure prevents vulnerable artifacts from progressing and alerts developers within minutes, enabling quick remediation early in the lifecycle. Requiring a product-owner review is slow and manual, so it cannot guarantee immediate blocking. Weekly penetration tests in staging provide delayed feedback and allow insecure code to reach downstream environments before issues are found. Relying on RASP after production deployment does not satisfy the goal of stopping promotion; it merely mitigates issues already released.
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