ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
Your organization runs its workloads on AWS and aggregates CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs into a central SIEM. After investigating GuardDuty alerts, you confirmed that an IAM access key has been compromised and used to enumerate S3 buckets. You must communicate the findings to multiple stakeholder groups, including senior executives, application owners, and the cloud operations team. Which communication approach best aligns with security-assessment reporting best practices for diverse stakeholders?
Update the risk register but wait to brief stakeholders until all remediation steps are complete to avoid unnecessary alarm.
Prepare a written report with an executive summary focused on business impact for leadership and a separate technical section detailing indicators of compromise, affected resources, and step-by-step remediation for operations.
Post an informal message in the company chat channel describing the incident to avoid creating discoverable documents.
Email a single file to all recipients that contains the full CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs so everyone has identical, unfiltered data.
Effective communication of security findings requires tailoring the message to the audience. Senior executives need a concise, business-focused summary that highlights potential impact, risk level, and recommended actions. Technical teams need detailed IoCs, log excerpts, and step-by-step remediation guidance so they can act quickly. Creating a single report that combines these layers but separates them into an executive summary and a technical appendix satisfies both needs while preventing information overload for non-technical readers. Simply emailing raw logs, relying on informal chat, or delaying notification either overwhelms readers, raises legal/record-keeping concerns, or withholds critical information that stakeholders require for timely response and decision-making.
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