Which of the following would an IS auditor consider a weakness when performing an audit of an organization that uses a public key infrastructure (PKI) with digital certificates for its business-to-consumer transactions via the Internet?
A. Customers are widely dispersed geographically, but the certificate authorities (CAs) are not.
B. Customers can make their transactions from any computer or mobile device.
C. The CA has several data processing subcenters to administer certificates.
D. The organization is the owner of the CA.
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Answer / heather chatterjee
D is the Correct Answer.
A. It is common to use a single certificate authority (CA). They do not need to be geographically dispersed.
B. The use of public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificates allows flexible secure communications from many devices.
C. The CA will often have redundancy and failover capabilities to alternate data centers.
D. If the CA belongs to the same organization, this would pose a risk. The management of a CA must be based on trusted and secure procedures. If the organization has not set in place the controls to manage the registration, distribution and revocation of certificates this could lead to a compromise of the certificates and loss of trust.
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