Question 710
At Ironwood Insurance, the FortiGate 7.6 security administration team encounters the following authorized operational case: a team selects monitor for remote-control tools and then reports that those applications are still allowed. They need a defensible FortiOS configuration, diagnosis, validation or prevention decision. What root condition most directly explains the described FortiGate symptom?
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Correct Answer
Monitor observes and logs a detected application without enforcing a blocking action. The mechanism is relevant because the stated application-control monitor action incident concerns the actual selected path, policy, identity or inspection state. The appropriate response is to change the intended application signature action from monitor to block in the relevant profile; verify it through this observed condition: a supervised prohibited application connection is denied and logged.
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An AV profile must support and inspect the actual traversing application protocol explains a different situation, av protocol options coverage, where hTTP files are inspected correctly but permitted SMTP file transfers never receive the required security scan. It does not account for the specific observed application-control monitor action condition at Ironwood Insurance. The decisive mechanism here is: Monitor observes and logs a detected application without enforcing a blocking action.
Network antivirus traffic blocking and endpoint file quarantine are different enforcement points explains a different situation, anti-malware quarantine workflow, where the firewall detects a malicious download but an administrator expects the file to appear in host endpoint quarantine automatically. It does not account for the specific observed application-control monitor action condition at Ironwood Insurance. The decisive mechanism here is: Monitor observes and logs a detected application without enforcing a blocking action.
A custom protocol risk may need a precise signature when standard databases do not identify it explains a different situation, ips custom signature deployment, where a proprietary application suffers a documented protocol attack that lacks an applicable default IPS signature. It does not account for the specific observed application-control monitor action condition at Ironwood Insurance. The decisive mechanism here is: Monitor observes and logs a detected application without enforcing a blocking action.