ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your company is finalizing its incident response policy before moving critical workloads to AWS. Security leadership wants to guarantee that responders can act immediately without waiting for management approval when a compromise is detected in a production account. Which statement, if added to the policy, BEST meets this requirement while respecting AWS's shared responsibility model?
Include a clause authorizing responders to execute pre-approved automation runbooks that assume a least-privilege Incident Response IAM role in affected AWS accounts.
Mandate quarterly rotation of all S3 access keys used by development teams.
Maintain an inventory appendix listing every EC2 instance ID with the private SSH keys held by the security team.
Append a detailed mapping of each workload to its corresponding NIST SP 800-53 security controls.
The incident response policy should explicitly grant pre-approved authority to assume a dedicated AWS IAM role that carries only the permissions required for investigation and containment. Documenting the use of automation runbooks tied to that role ensures responders can act without delay yet keeps least-privilege controls in place. Rotating keys, cataloging instance IDs, or mapping NIST controls are valuable practices, but none directly authorize rapid, controlled access during an incident.
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