Question 820
During a post-incident audit at a retail marketplace, the IS auditor learns that the organization provides training without testing behavior in realistic workplace situations. The affected operation supports customer checkout and order fulfillment. Customer transactions and market trust depend on effective control. Which risk should the auditor treat as the PRIMARY concern arising from these facts?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Correct. Training attendance alone may not reduce unsafe behavior if role relevance and effectiveness are never assessed. The described exception is: the organization provides training without testing behavior in realistic workplace situations. This risk ties the observation to the business significance of customer checkout and order fulfillment, rather than treating management's claim as independent assurance.
Incorrect Answers
Security testing can miss material exposure or create uncontrolled disruption if scope, validation and remediation are weak. That protection can exist while evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion is still missing.
Material attacks may go undetected or unhandled when monitoring coverage, correlation and escalation fail. It protects a different risk than the evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion requirement.
Poor collection integrity or chain of custody can undermine forensic reliability and accountability. It does not retain the evidence appropriate to the audit conclusion control over time.