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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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Question

Which of the following allows a company to maintain access to encrypted resources when employee turnover is high?

Options

  • ARecovery agent
  • BCertificate authority
  • CTrust model
  • DKey escrow

How the community answered

(65 responses)
  • A
    94% (61)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    3% (2)

Why each option

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.

ARecovery agentCorrect

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.

BCertificate authority

A Certificate Authority (CA) issues and manages digital certificates but does not itself hold the ability to decrypt user-encrypted data.

CTrust model

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.

DKey escrow

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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#recovery agent#key management#encryption access#PKI

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