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KT-DP Data loss prevention (DLP)

Engineers paste production database connection strings into a public Slack channel. Response?

Multiple choice — select one answer

Answer choices

  1. a. Delete the Slack workspace and recreate it weekly to limit historical exposure, without security or identity team coordination per policy.
  2. b. Trust that Slack encryption makes public channel secrets safe from attackers, without security or identity team coordination per policy.
  3. c. Rotate credentials, purge channel history per policy, and enable DLP for chat exfil patterns
  4. d. Ask engineers to use code comments instead of chat for sharing secrets, without security or identity team coordination per policy.

Architectural breakdown & explanation

Secrets in chat are credential exposure; rotate and add preventive DLP controls.

Correct answer(s): c. Rotate credentials, purge channel history per policy, and enable DLP for chat exfil patterns

Exam domain: Data loss prevention (DLP) (20% weight on the official guide).

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