During business continuity planning, the IT director assigns recovery time objectives based on system complexity and restoration effort. Several business units later dispute the recovery priorities. Who should the BCP coordinator ensure determines the RTOs? A. The IT director, who understands restoration capability B. Business process owners, based on impact analysis C. Executive management, to resolve the dispute with authority D. The BCP coordinator, to maintain plan consistency (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

An autonomous AI agent needs credentials to query production databases and invoke internal APIs on a recurring schedule. The automation team proposes reusing a departed developer's service account to launch quickly. What should the IAM manager require FIRST? A. Rotate the credentials and transfer the account to the automation team B. Register the agent as a distinct non-human identity with a defined owner C. Scope the account's permissions to only the required datasets D. Enable enhanced logging on all agent-initiated transactions (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

During active ransomware containment, the operations team wants to immediately wipe and reimage infected servers to restore a critical service. Cyber insurance and law enforcement notifications are pending. What should the incident commander do FIRST? A. Preserve forensic images of affected systems before restoration B. Restore the service from the most recent clean backup C. Notify the cyber insurer to avoid violating policy conditions D. Isolate remaining unaffected segments to prevent spread (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

A development team adopts a widely used open source library that accelerates delivery of a revenue-critical release. The library has no active maintainer and no published vulnerability disclosure process. What should the security manager recommend FIRST? A. Add the library to the software bill of materials for monitoring B. Evaluate the component against secure acquisition and supply chain criteria C. Fork the library so the organization controls future patching D. Require compensating controls at the application perimeter (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

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