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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

A payments microservice hosted on AWS Lambda must call a private REST API published through Amazon API Gateway. Security requirements state that the API must be able to (1) confirm that each request really originated from an authorized Lambda function and (2) ensure the calling function cannot later deny having sent a specific payment instruction. Which approach BEST meets both requirements with minimal operational overhead?

  • Enable mutual TLS between the Lambda function and API Gateway and restrict the API to the Lambda's VPC CIDR range.

  • Include an HMAC of the request body in a custom HTTP header, using a shared secret retrieved at runtime from AWS Secrets Manager.

  • Require the Lambda to present an API key generated by API Gateway in each request and rotate the key every 30 days.

  • Have the Lambda function call AWS KMS Sign with its own RSA private key to create a digital signature over each request payload and send the signature along; the API verifies the signature with the corresponding public key.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Cryptography
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