ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
An enterprise security team manages a log-management storage platform. CMDB records show the platform's capacity climbed from 120 TB to 156 TB in the past 12 months. Senior leadership wants to know when additional storage should be budgeted for the coming fiscal year. During the planning phase of the asset-management lifecycle, which activity will yield the most reliable forecast?
Conduct a full inventory audit of all removable media in the data center.
Run a comprehensive vulnerability scan against the storage controllers.
Perform trend analysis of historical storage utilization and extrapolate the growth curve.
Schedule quarterly media sanitization of retired backup tapes.
Trend analysis-sometimes called capacity planning-uses historical utilization data to calculate growth rates and project when existing capacity will be exhausted, providing the most defensible timeline for future procurement. A detailed inventory audit of removable media can reveal current usage and contribute to planning, but without longitudinal statistics it is less precise for forecasting exhaustion dates. Media sanitization and vulnerability scans address data protection and security posture rather than growth, so they do not generate capacity projections.
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