In a disruption, which statement best describes TA responsibility in continuity of trusted services?

• A. TA ensures continuity of trusted services and recovery of attestations
• B. TA focuses only on hardware
• C. TA coordinates vendor contracts
• D. TA does not participate

Answer: (A)

In disruption, the Trusted Agent must keep trust services available and have a plan to recover attestations, so the trust chain remains intact. Attestation is how a system proves its state to a verifier; if services are interrupted, you need backup, failover, and recovery processes so attestations can still be produced, validated, or reissued once operations resume. This ensures relying parties can trust the system even after an outage, preserving both continuity of service and the integrity of the evidence of trust. Focusing only on hardware, juggling vendor contracts, or not participating would not address the need to keep trust services alive and recoverable during disruptions.