Question 510
For this Cisco ENSLD design case: During a predeployment review for a multimodal logistics WAN, the team discovers this design gap: a company needs confidentiality and integrity for site-to-site traffic across the public Internet. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
IPsec secures eligible IP packets using negotiated security associations; GRE alone does not encrypt them. The correct engineering response is: Use properly negotiated route-based or policy-based IPsec tunnels with suitable modern crypto suites. The observable check is: Tunnel security associations establish and captured transport traffic does not reveal protected payloads. The multimodal logistics WAN acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
IPsec secures eligible IP packets using negotiated security associations; GRE alone does not encrypt them. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: GETVPN can encrypt group traffic on a trusted routed core without requiring pairwise tunnel overlays between every site. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
IPsec secures eligible IP packets using negotiated security associations; GRE alone does not encrypt them. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Layer 2 VPN isolation is distinct from end-to-end payload encryption and depends on carrier trust boundaries. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
IPsec secures eligible IP packets using negotiated security associations; GRE alone does not encrypt them. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Route, tunnel and policy scale constraints can become bottlenecks even when an initial pilot works. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.