A Systems Developer Needs to Provide Machine-To-Machine Interface Between an Application

A systems developer needs to provide machine-to-machine interface between an application and a database server in the production environment. This interface will exchange data once per day. Which of the following access control account practices would BEST be used in this situation?

A) Establish a privileged interface group and apply read-write permission to the members of that group.
B) Submit a request for account privilege escalation when the data needs to be transferred.
C) Install the application and database on the same server and add the interface to the local administrator group.
D) Use a service account and prohibit users from accessing this account for development work.