A Company Is Developing a Highly Resilient Application to Be

question 97

Multiple Choice

A company is developing a highly resilient application to be hosted on multiple Amazon EC2 instances. The application will store highly sensitive user data in Amazon RDS tables. The application must: Include migration to a different AWS Region in the application disaster recovery plan. Provide a full audit trail of encryption key administration events. Allow only company administrators to administer keys. Protect data at rest using application layer encryption. A Security Engineer is evaluating options for encryption key management. Why should the Security Engineer choose AWS CloudHSM over AWS KMS for encryption key management in this situation?

• A) The key administration event logging generated by CloudHSM is significantly more extensive than AWS KMS.
• B) CloudHSM ensures that only company support staff can administer encryption keys, whereas AWS KMS allows AWS staff to administer keys.
• C) The ciphertext producer by CloudHSM provides more robust protection against brute force decryption attacks than the ciphertext produced by AWS KMS.
• D) CloudHSM provides the ability to copy keys to a different Region, whereas AWS KMS does not.

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