ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
A security analyst has finished a workstation forensic examination and produced a comprehensive 40-page technical report with timeline tables, hash listings, and registry artifact screenshots. The CISO now wants a version of the report for senior management to brief them at the next board meeting. Which change is MOST important when tailoring the document for that audience?
Remove the incident timeline entirely and provide only the raw log files for completeness.
Expand the registry and hexadecimal screenshots so executives can independently verify the analyst's conclusions.
Replace detailed artifact evidence with a short narrative that highlights business impact, risk, and recommended actions while avoiding technical jargon.
Add a full chain-of-custody appendix to demonstrate evidentiary integrity to the board.
Senior executives generally need a concise, high-level overview that focuses on business impact and required actions, not low-level forensic detail. Removing technical jargon and emphasizing the incident's effect on operations, risk exposure, and recommended remediation ensures the report is understandable and actionable for non-technical leadership. Detailed artifacts, hexadecimal offsets, and exhaustive timelines are valuable for investigators or legal counsel but will obscure the key message for the board, so they should be summarized or placed in appendices rather than highlighted in the management version.
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