CERTIFIED-IN-CYBERSECURITY · Question #770
As an IT Security professional, you are expected to perform due care. What does this mean?
The correct answer is D. Do what is right in the situation and your job. Act on the knowledge. Due care means doing what a reasonable and prudent person would do - acting on your knowledge and doing the right thing in a given situation. It is the 'doing' side of the due diligence/due care pair. Due diligence (option B) is the research and knowledge-acquisition phase…
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As an IT Security professional, you are expected to perform due care. What does this mean?
Options
- AContinue the security practices of your company.
- BResearching and acquiring the knowledge to do your job right.
- CApply patches annually.
- DDo what is right in the situation and your job. Act on the knowledge.
How the community answered
(61 responses)- A3% (2)
- B2% (1)
- C7% (4)
- D89% (54)
Explanation
Due care means doing what a reasonable and prudent person would do - acting on your knowledge and doing the right thing in a given situation. It is the 'doing' side of the due diligence/due care pair. Due diligence (option B) is the research and knowledge-acquisition phase. Option A describes maintaining existing practices, which may not constitute due care if those practices are inadequate. Option C (annual patching) is far too infrequent to meet any reasonable security standard.
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