ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question

While creating a security test plan for a new online banking portal, the team schedules an exercise that saturates the login service with tens of thousands of concurrent requests to observe CPU utilization and response-time degradation. Which category of security testing does this exercise best represent?

  • Static application security testing of the login module's source code

  • Functional security testing of authentication logic

  • Misuse and abuse case testing for credential brute-force attacks

  • Nonfunctional security testing that assesses performance under load

ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)
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