ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
Your company is retiring an on-premises analytics application and has already backed up data, removed it from production servers, revoked all user credentials, and deleted related firewall rules. To comply with a comprehensive end-of-life (EOL) policy and avoid unnecessary expense or unapproved reuse, which additional action should the decommissioning team take before formally closing the project?
Permanently delete the application's source code repository to eliminate any chance of re-deployment.
Revoke and formally document cancellation of all software licenses associated with the application.
Notify the marketing team to publish an announcement about the application's discontinuation.
Schedule quarterly vulnerability scans for the decommissioned servers to detect late-emerging issues.
A complete EOL process must ensure that no residual obligations or uncontrolled assets remain after an application is retired. Although data archiving, account revocation, and configuration cleanup are essential, any active software licenses-whether for the application itself or third-party components it relies on-must also be cancelled or transferred. Failing to do so can leave the organization paying maintenance fees or expose it to compliance and legal risks if the licenses are later misused. Deleting source code, scheduling future scans, or issuing marketing communications may be appropriate in some situations, but they do not address the immediate need to stop license costs and prevent unauthorized future use, which is why revoking and documenting license termination is the most critical next step at this stage of decommissioning.
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