Question 470
At the Orchardfield financial services firm, east-west application traffic between cloud servers is unrestricted despite only three approved service dependencies. What risk should the team identify as the primary issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The architectural weakness is that flat internal trust allows a compromised cloud workload to reach unrelated services. It can be addressed through the controlled change to use Cisco Secure Workload application dependency visibility and workload microsegmentation policies.
Incorrect Answers
The offered action is: Independent cloud network rules create gaps and inconsistent threat enforcement. It is associated with this separate technical condition: Independent cloud network rules create gaps and inconsistent threat enforcement. The actual incident concerns a different dependency: Flat internal trust allows a compromised cloud workload to reach unrelated services. The corresponding change is: Flat internal trust allows a compromised cloud workload to reach unrelated services.
Low-level runtime hooks can affect host security and performance if loaded without governance. That may occur elsewhere, but the evidence at the Orchardfield financial services firm instead points to the fact that flat internal trust allows a compromised cloud workload to reach unrelated services.
The offered alternative is: Shared responsibility requires coordinated incident response rather than assumptions that one party handles all effects. It addresses this separate failure mode: Shared responsibility requires coordinated incident response rather than assumptions that one party handles all effects. In the current case, the observed mechanism is: Flat internal trust allows a compromised cloud workload to reach unrelated services. The keyed action, Flat internal trust allows a compromised cloud workload to reach unrelated services., targets that condition more directly.