Question 870
At the Cedarport professional services partnership, a finance application accepts password-only access from unfamiliar devices during sensitive approvals. Which underlying issue most directly explains this situation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The evidence indicates that knowledge of a password does not establish sufficient trust for consequential transactions. The appropriate response is to enforce Cisco Duo MFA and risk-appropriate step-up for high-impact actions and demonstrate that a simulated new-device approval requires the defined additional verification.
Incorrect Answers
Contextual sign-in risk can change after the device or geographic environment changes. That is not the mechanism that accounts for the stated failure at the Cedarport professional services partnership.
The offered principle is: MAB is a fallback identifier method not strong cryptographic device authentication. In the source material it is associated with: MAB is a fallback identifier method not strong cryptographic device authentication. This case has a different controlling cause: Knowledge of a password does not establish sufficient trust for consequential transactions. Its keyed mechanism is: Knowledge of a password does not establish sufficient trust for consequential transactions.
Although raw indicator alerts without enrichment can prompt avoidable high-impact actions, the presented symptoms do not support that as the primary cause; they indicate that knowledge of a password does not establish sufficient trust for consequential transactions. For the Cedarport professional services partnership, the direct corrective action is to enforce Cisco Duo MFA and risk-appropriate step-up for high-impact actions.