SY0-301 · Question #57
Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when employee turnover is high?
The correct answer is A. Recovery agent. A recovery agent is a designated account or entity that can decrypt data encrypted by other users, ensuring access to encrypted resources is not lost when employees leave.
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Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when employee turnover is high?
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- ARecovery agent
- BCertificate authority
- CTrust model
- DKey escrow
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- C2% (1)
- D3% (2)
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A recovery agent is a designated account or entity that can decrypt data encrypted by other users, ensuring access to encrypted resources is not lost when employees leave.
A recovery agent - such as the EFS (Encrypting File System) Data Recovery Agent in Windows - holds a special certificate that allows it to decrypt files encrypted by any user in the organization. This prevents permanent data loss when a departing employee's private key is unavailable, which is especially important in environments with high employee turnover.
A Certificate Authority (CA) issues and manages digital certificates but does not itself hold the ability to decrypt user-encrypted data.
A trust model defines how and whether entities trust each other's certificates; it does not provide a mechanism for recovering access to encrypted content.
Key escrow stores copies of private keys with a third party for lawful interception or compliance, but it is not the standard PKI mechanism used to recover access to encrypted files within an organization.
Concept tested: EFS recovery agent for encrypted data access
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/information-protection/encrypted-hard-drive
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