ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
Your organization is retiring an on-premises HR application that provides daily employee updates to payroll and badge-access systems. To control data disposition and avoid outages, what is the most appropriate first action before any purge, shutdown, or network change?
Place the HR system in read-only mode and create a full, verified backup of its databases and storage.
Remove DNS and firewall entries for the HR server to block new connections.
Catalog all data flows and interface control documents to identify every consumer of HR data.
Notify all employees of the pending shutdown and instruct them to reset their HR portal passwords.
The correct first step is to freeze the data set by placing the HR system in read-only (or maintenance) mode and taking a complete, validated backup or snapshot of all relevant databases and storage. This locks the data, preserves an auditable copy for retention or rollback, and ensures a known-good source if unrecognized dependencies surface later. Starting with dependency mapping, user notifications, or network removal without a secured backup risks permanent data loss and extended outages if issues arise.
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