Data security management is concerned with changes that could affect cyber security risks, such as expansion, acquisition, or hardware updates.

Data security management is concerned with changes that could affect cyber security risks, such as expansion, acquisition, or hardware updates.

• A. Data security management
• B. Access control
• C. Compliance monitoring
• D. Vendor risk management

Answer: (A)

Data security management focuses on how changes in the environment can alter cyber security risk and on ensuring that security controls adapt as the system evolves. When a business expands, acquires another company, or updates hardware, the information landscape changes: new assets, data flows, vulnerabilities, and exposure levels can emerge. Data security management covers identifying these potential risk shifts, updating risk assessments, adjusting controls (like access management, network segmentation, and monitoring), and ensuring appropriate patching and incident response. This holistic view of managing risk in light of changes is what makes it the best fit. Access control is about who is authorized to use resources and ensuring proper permissions, but it doesn’t by itself address how changes to the environment influence overall cyber risk. Compliance monitoring focuses on checking adherence to policies and regulations, not the ongoing assessment and adjustment of risk arising from changes. Vendor risk management concentrates on third parties and external relationships, which is important but narrower and not the full scope of how internal changes impact cyber risk.

Data security management focuses on how changes in the environment can alter cyber security risk and on ensuring that security controls adapt as the system evolves. When a business expands, acquires another company, or updates hardware, the information landscape changes: new assets, data flows, vulnerabilities, and exposure levels can emerge. Data security management covers identifying these potential risk shifts, updating risk assessments, adjusting controls (like access management, network segmentation, and monitoring), and ensuring appropriate patching and incident response. This holistic view of managing risk in light of changes is what makes it the best fit.

Access control is about who is authorized to use resources and ensuring proper permissions, but it doesn’t by itself address how changes to the environment influence overall cyber risk. Compliance monitoring focuses on checking adherence to policies and regulations, not the ongoing assessment and adjustment of risk arising from changes. Vendor risk management concentrates on third parties and external relationships, which is important but narrower and not the full scope of how internal changes impact cyber risk.