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Actual exam question from Isaca's CISA
Question #: 57
Topic #: 1
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A manager identifies active privileged accounts belonging to staff who have left the organization. Which of the following is the threat actor in this scenario?

  • A. Hacktivists
  • B. Deleted log data
  • C. Terminated staff
  • D. Unauthorized access
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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

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waqasCISA
Highly Voted 1 year, 11 months ago
D seems best answer
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Manfredido
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The correct answer is D. Th risk in this scenario is unauthorized access. This could be by either terminated staff or existing staff who could still use a terminated staff's active account to have unauthorized access to system resources and harm the system.
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Bankyz
1 year, 7 months ago
Threat actors are humans or a group of humans.
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Pumeza
Most Recent 3 months, 3 weeks ago
C. Terminated staff
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5b56aae
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: C
clearly a staff related threat
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Yejide03
1 year, 1 month ago
Selected Answer: C
C is right
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oldmagic
1 year, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: C
C is correct,
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Delta67
1 year, 11 months ago
C - who pose the immediate threat as threat actors
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MunaM
2 years, 5 months ago
It's talking about threat actor and accounts are active so terminated staff could use the privilged account to make changes. Anyone else please confirm?
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Deeplaxmi
2 years, 5 months ago
the question has wordings "in this scenario", hence, the terminated staff is better option. Otherwise also in normal scenario there is a possibility of unauthoirsed access.
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murphseal
2 years, 5 months ago
Answer is D. Terminated staff will include unauthorized access but it's not limited to them. Other people could use those accounts as well
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