ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
A security administrator must satisfy corporate policy requiring a quarterly audit that verifies no S3 bucket allows public read access and that no security group permits inbound SSH from 0.0.0.0/0. The team wants to automate the evaluation, track historical compliance status, and receive a consolidated compliance report each month with minimal manual effort. Which solution best meets these requirements?
Enable AWS CloudTrail and run scheduled Amazon Athena queries each quarter to identify public S3 buckets and open SSH ports, then email the query results.
Turn on Amazon GuardDuty and create CloudWatch alarms that notify the team when findings related to public S3 access or SSH brute-force attempts are generated.
Configure AWS Config with the managed rules s3-bucket-public-read-prohibited and restricted-ssh, enable an aggregator across all accounts, and schedule monthly compliance reports to S3.
Purchase a Business Support plan and rely on AWS Trusted Advisor's weekly email reports to flag publicly accessible S3 buckets and open SSH ports.
AWS Config continuously records resource configurations and evaluates them against managed rules such as s3-bucket-public-read-prohibited and restricted-ssh. It keeps a historical compliance timeline, can aggregate results across multiple accounts, and exports periodic compliance reports to an S3 bucket, satisfying the need for automated, ongoing assessment and monthly reporting with little operational overhead.
CloudTrail plus Athena would require building and maintaining custom queries and reports and only provides event data, not configuration compliance status. GuardDuty focuses on threat detection rather than configuration compliance, and it does not offer built-in compliance reports. Trusted Advisor's weekly emails cover only some best-practice checks and cannot be customized to include all required controls or produce monthly consolidated reports, so it does not meet the stated needs.
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