Question 680
At the Valeford municipal government, security responders cannot tell whether all company laptops have been onboarded to endpoint protection. How should the organization sustain the improvement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The continuing safeguard is to audit onboarding gaps after device procurement and retirement. It helps avoid the original condition: an endpoint security plan only covers devices that are properly onboarded and sending required signals. This result addresses the stated challenge at the Valeford municipal government.
Incorrect Answers
The option would have the team tune anomaly thresholds and cloud connector coverage periodically. For this situation, the preventive control should instead be to audit onboarding gaps after device procurement and retirement. For the Valeford municipal government, the direct corrective action is to review Microsoft Defender for Endpoint device inventory and onboarding status.
Although the proposed practice may address cases where network rules support precise transport-level filtering instead of unrestricted connectivity, it does not maintain the specific correction here. For the Valeford municipal government, the direct corrective action is to review Microsoft Defender for Endpoint device inventory and onboarding status.
The suggested review does not track the condition behind the incident. Sustained improvement requires the team to audit onboarding gaps after device procurement and retirement. For the Valeford municipal government, the direct corrective action is to review Microsoft Defender for Endpoint device inventory and onboarding status.