Question 660
At the Fairhaven nonprofit organization, hundreds of laptops no longer appear in inventory but their user identities remain active. Which ongoing control best prevents this issue from recurring?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The continuing safeguard is to reconcile device ownership after hardware lifecycle events. It helps avoid the original condition: stale inventory makes it difficult to apply consistent patching and authorization.
Incorrect Answers
Review BYOD enrollment scope and privacy notices. That safeguard would help prevent recurrence of: Whole-device administration can violate privacy commitments and increase data exposure. The risk being reviewed here is instead: Stale inventory makes it difficult to apply consistent patching and authorization. The matching ongoing control is: Reconcile device ownership after hardware lifecycle events.
Monitor retrospective events after intelligence updates is not the primary recurring safeguard for this problem. The team should reconcile device ownership after hardware lifecycle events. For the Fairhaven nonprofit organization, the direct corrective action is to reconcile asset inventory with identity and endpoint telemetry and quarantine unknown assets.
Monitor exception usage and changed file digests. That safeguard would help prevent recurrence of: Signature trust and a security detection must be investigated rather than blindly accepted or dismissed. The risk being reviewed here is instead: Stale inventory makes it difficult to apply consistent patching and authorization. The matching ongoing control is: Reconcile device ownership after hardware lifecycle events.