Question 270
At the Foxhaven global distribution firm, a firewall management console lets junior analysts publish policy changes without review or audit. Which underlying issue most directly explains this situation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The evidence indicates that centralized configuration can amplify unauthorized changes without an explicit approval gate. The appropriate response is to require change approval and traceable deployment records for central firewall updates and demonstrate that a requested rule remains staged until an authorized reviewer approves deployment.
Incorrect Answers
Cloud-delivered management does not eliminate the need for role and device boundary enforcement. That is not the mechanism that accounts for the stated failure at the Foxhaven global distribution firm.
The offered principle is: Unsecured management transport exposes device configuration and administrator privileges. In the source material it is associated with: Unsecured management transport exposes device configuration and administrator privileges. This case has a different controlling cause: Centralized configuration can amplify unauthorized changes without an explicit approval gate. Its keyed mechanism is: Centralized configuration can amplify unauthorized changes without an explicit approval gate.
Although tunnel established status alone does not establish permitted forwarding for every destination, the presented symptoms do not support that as the primary cause; they indicate that centralized configuration can amplify unauthorized changes without an explicit approval gate. For the Foxhaven global distribution firm, the direct corrective action is to require change approval and traceable deployment records for central firewall updates.