Question 340
At Eastvale Manufacturing, the FortiGate 7.6 security administration team encounters the following authorized operational case: a specific new allow policy never records any hits because an earlier broad policy already permits the same packets. They need a defensible FortiOS configuration, diagnosis, validation or prevention decision. Which recurring review is most relevant to the same root risk?
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Correct Answer
Review unused or shadowed policies using hit counts. This recurring practice addresses shadowed duplicate accept rule because an earlier matching firewall rule can fully shadow a later rule with the same source and service scope. It reinforces the supported change to review top-down match order and consolidate or reposition redundant policies safely rather than relying on an unrelated periodic audit.
Incorrect Answers
Check specific-to-general ordering when adding central NAT mappings reduces recurrence of central snat rule precedence, rather than the observed shadowed duplicate accept rule issue. The relevant preventive control for Eastvale Manufacturing is: Review unused or shadowed policies using hit counts. This distinction matters because an earlier matching firewall rule can fully shadow a later rule with the same source and service scope.
Maintain cross-partner IP allocation and translation records reduces recurrence of overlapping private network translation, rather than the observed shadowed duplicate accept rule issue. The relevant preventive control for Eastvale Manufacturing is: Review unused or shadowed policies using hit counts. This distinction matters because an earlier matching firewall rule can fully shadow a later rule with the same source and service scope.
Rotate RADIUS secrets through coordinated changes reduces recurrence of radius shared secret mismatch, rather than the observed shadowed duplicate accept rule issue. The relevant preventive control for Eastvale Manufacturing is: Review unused or shadowed policies using hit counts. This distinction matters because an earlier matching firewall rule can fully shadow a later rule with the same source and service scope.