Question 690
At the Kingsford retail company, a laptop completed a health check months ago and its old compliant result is reused indefinitely. Which underlying issue most directly explains this situation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The architectural weakness is that historic compliance evidence may be obsolete after configuration changes. It can be addressed through the controlled change to set posture re-evaluation policies appropriate to device and resource risk.
Incorrect Answers
The offered principle is: Unpatched devices introduce known exploit risk despite valid credentials. In the source material it is associated with: Unpatched devices introduce known exploit risk despite valid credentials. This case has a different controlling cause: Historic compliance evidence may be obsolete after configuration changes. Its keyed mechanism is: Historic compliance evidence may be obsolete after configuration changes.
The offered principle is: Broad exclusions can create large unmonitored execution surfaces. In the source material it is associated with: Broad exclusions can create large unmonitored execution surfaces. This case has a different controlling cause: Historic compliance evidence may be obsolete after configuration changes. Its keyed mechanism is: Historic compliance evidence may be obsolete after configuration changes.
Although new reputation knowledge can reveal previously unnoticed exposure, the presented symptoms do not support that as the primary cause; they indicate that historic compliance evidence may be obsolete after configuration changes. For the Kingsford retail company, the direct corrective action is to set posture re-evaluation policies appropriate to device and resource risk.