A cloud outage cost a retailer a day of online sales. The CFO has funded a second region and wants migration started this quarter. No business impact analysis exists. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Design the second region with the cloud team B. Conduct a business impact analysis to set recovery targets C. Negotiate a stronger uptime commitment with the provider D. Buy business interruption insurance for cloud outages (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

A key customer wants a site-to-site link into the plant network in 30 days so its ordering system can read live inventory. The contract is signed and the customer's security posture is unknown. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Build the tunnel, firewall rules limited to inventory B. Assess the risk and define the connection's requirements C. Require the customer's security assessment report first D. Publish inventory through an isolated extranet segment (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

A cloud payroll vendor offers a SOC 2 Type I report dated 14 months ago to close a contract due Friday. HR wants to sign. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Require a current SOC 2 Type II before signing B. Review the report's scope, period and exceptions against services used C. Sign with a contractual right to audit clause D. Commission an independent penetration test of the vendor (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

A manufacturer buys a smaller rival in 30 days. The CEO wants its network joined to the corporate cloud on day one. Its security posture has never been reviewed. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Connect it behind a restrictive firewall B. Require it to adopt corporate security policies C. Perform security due diligence on its environment D. Extend cyber insurance to cover its systems (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!

A shipping app relies on an open source library whose only maintainer went silent a year ago. A critical flaw is now public and release is in two weeks. Developers want to fork and patch it. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Approve the fork to keep the release on schedule B. Assess the library's exposure and the alternatives to forking C. Require a software bill of materials for the app D. Block the exploit at the gateway as a compensating control (Explain your answer for more points in the comments!) Come back for the answer tomorrow, or study more now!