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ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question

While performing an internal security assessment, an SSCP-certified cloud engineer discovers that a third-party vendor's public S3 bucket inadvertently exposes thousands of patient medical records used by the company's production healthcare application. The engineer's AWS account cannot change the vendor's configuration, but the data can be read. Under the (ISC)² Code of Ethics canon that mandates protecting society and critical infrastructure, what is the MOST appropriate initial response?

  • Take no action because securing the bucket is solely the vendor's responsibility under the shared responsibility model.

  • Contact the vendor to report the exposure and offer assistance to remediate the misconfiguration before any public disclosure.

  • Publish full details of the vulnerability on a security mailing list so the community pressures the vendor to act.

  • Quietly copy the exposed files, delete them from the bucket, and then monitor for recurrence.

ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
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