Question 110
At Bayfield Regional Hospital, the FortiGate 7.6 security administration team encounters the following authorized operational case: branch firewalls forward sensitive security logs over a network not governed as trusted but administrators use plaintext transport. They need a defensible FortiOS configuration, diagnosis, validation or prevention decision. What root condition most directly explains the described FortiGate symptom?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Unprotected log transport may expose event metadata or permit modification on untrusted paths. The mechanism is relevant because the stated log encryption in transit incident concerns the actual selected path, policy, identity or inspection state. The appropriate response is to use a supported authenticated or encrypted logging transport through approved infrastructure; verify it through this observed condition: a transport inspection shows the approved protected connection and complete collector ingestion.
Incorrect Answers
An HA peer with divergent configuration can handle failover traffic differently from the primary explains a different situation, ha configuration synchronization, where a standby FortiGate uses stale policy objects because configuration synchronization status is unhealthy. It does not account for the specific observed log encryption in transit condition at Bayfield Regional Hospital. The decisive mechanism here is: Unprotected log transport may expose event metadata or permit modification on untrusted paths.
Link negotiation mismatch can cause collisions or frame errors despite an apparently up interface explains a different situation, physical duplex negotiation, where a branch uplink suffers errors and poor throughput after one side is forced to full duplex and the other autonegotiates. It does not account for the specific observed log encryption in transit condition at Bayfield Regional Hospital. The decisive mechanism here is: Unprotected log transport may expose event metadata or permit modification on untrusted paths.
High aggregate CPU alone does not identify the FortiOS daemon or workload responsible explains a different situation, high cpu process triage, where a FortiGate reports sustained CPU saturation and administrators plan a blind restart without isolating the process. It does not account for the specific observed log encryption in transit condition at Bayfield Regional Hospital. The decisive mechanism here is: Unprotected log transport may expose event metadata or permit modification on untrusted paths.