A penetration test identifies a critical vulnerability in a customer-facing application, but exploitation would require downtime during peak business hours. The business requests delaying remediation until the next quarterly release. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Accept the risk and document the delay as requested B. Perform a risk assessment and present impact analysis to business leadership C. Immediately remediate the vulnerability despite business objections D. Disable the affected application until remediation is complete

An organization integrates automated security testing into its CI/CD pipeline. Shortly after deployment, build times increase significantly, and developers begin bypassing security checks to meet release deadlines. Senior management is concerned about both security and delivery velocity. What should the security lead do FIRST? A. Disable automated security testing to restore build speed B. Tune and prioritize security tests based on risk and criticality C. Enforce strict policy violations and discipline developers D. Move security testing entirely to post-deployment monitoring

An organization adopts a Zero Trust model and removes implicit trust between internal network segments. Shortly after deployment, several business-critical applications experience latency and intermittent access failures. Leadership questions whether the Zero Trust initiative should be rolled back. What should the security architect do FIRST? A. Roll back Zero Trust controls to restore application performance B. Perform a targeted assessment to identify policy enforcement points causing disruption C. Permanently whitelist affected applications to bypass Zero Trust controls D. Escalate the issue to vendors to redesign the Zero Trust architecture

An organization migrating legacy file shares to a cloud collaboration platform discovers that several datasets contain regulated records with no documented retention periods or data owners. The business wants immediate migration to meet a project deadline. What should the security manager do FIRST? A. Migrate the data and address ownership and retention after cutover B. Identify data owners and define retention requirements before migration C. Apply default retention policies to all datasets to avoid delay D. Escalate the issue to legal and halt the migration indefinitely

A global enterprise is transitioning from long-term symmetric encryption keys to an automated key rotation system using hardware security modules (HSMs). During the rollout, application owners express concern that frequent rotation may disrupt legacy integrations and availability. What should the security architect do FIRST? A. Enforce the new key-rotation policy across all systems immediately B. Perform a risk assessment to evaluate availability impact and integration dependencies C. Allow legacy systems to retain long-term keys indefinitely D. Delay implementation until all applications are modernized