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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

During an incident review, you examine a phishing email received by several DevOps engineers who administer your company's AWS environment. The message warns: "Your IAM access keys will be permanently disabled in the next two hours unless you immediately verify your identity. Only the first 25 users who complete the process will retain uninterrupted access." Which persuasive social-engineering tactic is the attacker primarily exploiting to convince the engineers to click the embedded link?

  • Leveraging perceived authority by posing as AWS Support personnel.

  • Creating a false sense of urgency and scarcity to trigger rapid, uncritical action.

  • Using social proof by claiming that other engineers have already complied.

  • Employing technical pretexting by impersonating a system verification process.

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