Question 290
At the Brookfield commercial bank, a site applies the hardened network baseline once but never detects changes introduced by new features. What risk should the team identify as the primary issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The architectural weakness is that one-time compliance does not detect later insecure configuration drift. It can be addressed through the controlled change to perform repeatable hardening compliance assessment and approved exception handling.
Incorrect Answers
The offered action is: Services without business purpose increase potential exploit points. It is associated with this separate technical condition: Services without business purpose increase potential exploit points. The actual incident concerns a different dependency: One-time compliance does not detect later insecure configuration drift. The corresponding change is: One-time compliance does not detect later insecure configuration drift.
Policy decisions need matching packet and rule context to identify the actual failure. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Brookfield commercial bank instead points to the fact that one-time compliance does not detect later insecure configuration drift.
The offered alternative is: Unchecked layer-two broadcast bursts consume switching resources and service capacity. It addresses this separate failure mode: Unchecked layer-two broadcast bursts consume switching resources and service capacity. In the current case, the observed mechanism is: One-time compliance does not detect later insecure configuration drift. The keyed action, One-time compliance does not detect later insecure configuration drift., targets that condition more directly.