ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question

During threat modeling of a SaaS customer-relationship platform, the team identifies the risk that privileged help-desk employees could run ad-hoc SQL queries and download the entire customer database. Which architectural control BEST mitigates this insider threat while still allowing the staff to perform day-to-day support tasks?

  • Decrease all employee password expiration intervals from 90 to 30 days

  • Assign help-desk staff a role that grants only predefined, read-only queries and requires a separate, higher-privileged role for bulk exports

  • Add CAPTCHA challenges before any database search performed by support personnel

  • Place a web application firewall in front of the database to filter unusual query patterns

ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
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