CV0-003 · Question #396
Which of the following security controls should be implemented to discover an employee with elevated access rights copying information from a cloud database?
The correct answer is B. Periodic review of database logs. Database logs provide a detective control that records actual data access and exfiltration activity, making them the correct tool to identify an insider threat copying data.
Question
Which of the following security controls should be implemented to discover an employee with elevated access rights copying information from a cloud database?
Options
- APeriodic review of user accounts
- BPeriodic review of database logs
- CAcceptable use policy training
- DEmployee training around appropriate access usage
How the community answered
(31 responses)- A13% (4)
- B77% (24)
- C6% (2)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Database logs provide a detective control that records actual data access and exfiltration activity, making them the correct tool to identify an insider threat copying data.
Reviewing user accounts identifies who has access but does not reveal whether an authorized user is actually misusing that access to copy data.
Periodic review of database logs is a detective control that captures records of who accessed the database, what queries were run, and what data was retrieved or exported. Because the employee already has elevated access rights, preventive controls like access reviews would not stop the activity - only log review can surface anomalous copying behavior after it occurs. This directly addresses the scenario of an authorized user abusing their privileges.
Acceptable use policy training is a preventive administrative control and does not detect or surface copying activity that has already occurred.
Employee training on appropriate access usage is also preventive and does not provide visibility into what actions a user with elevated rights has already taken.
Concept tested: Detective controls and database audit logging
Source: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-92/final
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