Which of the following is the GREATEST privacy risk factor for data stored on disk?

The correct answer is A. Lack of encryption at rest. Lack of encryption at rest is the greatest privacy risk because unencrypted data on disk can be directly read by anyone who gains physical or logical access to the storage medium - no additional steps required. If a drive is lost, stolen, or accessed by an unauthorized user, all

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ALack of encryption at rest
BUsers storing data locally
CHardware degradation
DLack of periodic backups

How the community answered

(41 responses)

A
95% (39)
B
2% (1)
C
2% (1)

Explanation

Lack of encryption at rest is the greatest privacy risk because unencrypted data on disk can be directly read by anyone who gains physical or logical access to the storage medium - no additional steps required. If a drive is lost, stolen, or accessed by an unauthorized user, all data is immediately exposed. The other options are operational concerns: local storage (B) is a policy issue, hardware degradation (C) is an availability/integrity concern, and lack of backups (D) is a data loss risk - none directly expose the data's confidentiality the way missing encryption does.

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#Encryption at Rest#Data Confidentiality#Privacy Risks#Data Storage Security

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