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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

A fintech startup runs its Java microservices in an Auto Scaling group of Amazon EC2 instances across two Availability Zones. The CISO has read about cache-based side-channel techniques that might let a malicious tenant on the same physical server access secrets from the company's virtual machines. Which action best mitigates the risk of this type of inter-VM attack without redesigning the VPC networking or changing application code?

  • Restrict each instance's security group to accept traffic only from the Application Load Balancer and required AWS service endpoints.

  • Provision the Auto Scaling group to use EC2 Dedicated Hosts so that only your company's instances run on each physical server.

  • Enable VPC Flow Logs and Amazon GuardDuty to detect anomalous east-west traffic between instances.

  • Place all instances in a spread placement group to force distribution across different racks and minimize correlated failures.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Systems and Application Security
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