Ted has been tasked with moving the company's physical server infrastructure to a cloud-based infrastructure. He knows that the servers the company uses in the data center are fairly new and are nowhere near ready for retirement. However, he also knows that security is a very important factor in any decisions that are made. Which of the following is unlikely to be considered as a factor in the confidentiality aspect of security planning?
A) An on-premises private cloud may be more susceptible to security vulnerabilities with a limited staff due to the volume of maintenance and patches required.
B) If the company were to deploy a private cloud, what kind of uptime requirements would the system need in order to meet the SLAs?
C) The physical security of the data center must be considered as physical access to the servers could still cause a data breach.
D) If the company were to use a public cloud provider, what kind of assurances do they have that the company's data will be kept private as well as what types of precautions and tools do they have in place?

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Uptime requirements relate to the availability aspect of security, not directly to confidentiality. Choices A, C, and D are directly related to maintaining the confidentiality of data.

Ted Has Been Tasked with Moving the Company's Physical Server