ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Practice Question
Your team is updating the architecture of a customer-facing SaaS platform to align with defense-in-depth objectives. Senior management wants to ensure service remains available if a complete regional outage, such as a widespread power failure, takes a data center offline. Which design change most directly implements geographical diversity to meet this goal?
Place a web application firewall and DDoS service at the primary site.
Ship daily tape backups to an off-site vault 20 miles away.
Run the application concurrently in two distinct regions behind a global traffic manager.
Increase server capacity within the primary region to absorb failures.
Geographical diversity is achieved by spreading critical components across distinct physical regions so that a localized outage cannot take down the service. Running the application in an active-active configuration in two cloud regions, coordinated by a global traffic manager or anycast DNS, ensures that if one region fails, users are automatically served by the other with little or no disruption. Merely adding capacity inside the same region, deploying additional security controls in one site, or sending tapes to a nearby vault do not protect against a full regional failure; they enhance other aspects of resilience or recovery but lack true geographic separation.
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