QuestionQ38

Cloud Security Operations

A key part of system audits is the ability to monitor changes over time and correlate those changes with ongoing compliance and internal processes.

Which cloud-computing characteristic makes this component more difficult than it is in a traditional data center?

  • A Portability
  • B Virtualization
  • C Elasticity
  • D Resource pooling
Explanation

Elasticity enables resources to scale out and in by being provisioned and released rapidly, sometimes automatically. The resulting frequent, short-lived configuration changes make it harder to maintain an audit trail and continuously map resources to compliance controls and internal processes.

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