Question 350
At the Umberfield retail company, employees reach high-risk newly registered malicious sites because the firewall allows all web destinations. What risk should the team identify as the primary issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The architectural weakness is that unrestricted web destinations increase phishing and malware landing-site exposure. It can be addressed through the controlled change to configure appropriate URL categories and reputation conditions with reviewed exceptions.
Incorrect Answers
The offered action is: Rule order determines which matching access decision is applied first. It is associated with this separate technical condition: Rule order determines which matching access decision is applied first. The actual incident concerns a different dependency: Unrestricted web destinations increase phishing and malware landing-site exposure. The corresponding change is: Unrestricted web destinations increase phishing and malware landing-site exposure.
Tunnel established status alone does not establish permitted forwarding for every destination. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Umberfield retail company instead points to the fact that unrestricted web destinations increase phishing and malware landing-site exposure.
The offered alternative is: Misconfigured trunk tagging can carry traffic outside the intended user VLAN. It addresses this separate failure mode: Misconfigured trunk tagging can carry traffic outside the intended user VLAN. In the current case, the observed mechanism is: Unrestricted web destinations increase phishing and malware landing-site exposure. The keyed action, Unrestricted web destinations increase phishing and malware landing-site exposure., targets that condition more directly.