Question 640
At Brookside Manufacturing, the industrial security team is conducting a plant safety and IT security assessment under requirements for production continuity and controlled test windows. An independent validation is requested for the original problem: A monitoring dashboard detects an unknown transmitter advertising the company's SSID but has no physical or controller inventory correlation. Which result BEST demonstrates successful remediation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Investigators classify the device accurately and can document whether it was rogue, misconfigured, or a legitimate temporary AP. The observable result demonstrates that the documented condition, A monitoring dashboard detects an unknown transmitter advertising the company's SSID but has no physical or controller inventory correlation. has been addressed. The planned remediation is: Compare observed wireless identifiers and locations against the authorized access-point inventory before taking containment action. This is a stronger validation than a saved ticket or unverified claim by Brookside Manufacturing.
Incorrect Answers
A controlled rogue authentication server is rejected while the legitimate trusted RADIUS service succeeds. That observation would verify another scenario: An organization enables WPA3-Enterprise but client devices are configured to ignore RADIUS server certificate validation. The corrective step for that other scenario is: Require certificate-chain and server-name validation in the managed supplicant profile. But Brookside Manufacturing is evaluating: A monitoring dashboard detects an unknown transmitter advertising the company's SSID but has no physical or controller inventory correlation. The necessary outcome is: Investigators classify the device accurately and can document whether it was rogue, misconfigured, or a legitimate temporary AP.
An unauthorized test device cannot authenticate even when the network name is known. That observation would verify another scenario: A security team assumes that hiding the wireless network name prevents unauthorized association. The corrective step for that other scenario is: Use robust authentication, encryption and client isolation rather than SSID suppression as a security control. But Brookside Manufacturing is evaluating: A monitoring dashboard detects an unknown transmitter advertising the company's SSID but has no physical or controller inventory correlation. The necessary outcome is: Investigators classify the device accurately and can document whether it was rogue, misconfigured, or a legitimate temporary AP.
A wireless configuration audit shows WEP disabled and authorized clients connect using approved encryption and authentication. That observation would verify another scenario: A branch access point still permits WEP authentication because an installer retained a compatibility setting from an obsolete deployment. The corrective step for that other scenario is: Replace obsolete wireless security with supported WPA3 or a properly configured WPA2-Enterprise profile and retire incompatible clients. But Brookside Manufacturing is evaluating: A monitoring dashboard detects an unknown transmitter advertising the company's SSID but has no physical or controller inventory correlation. The necessary outcome is: Investigators classify the device accurately and can document whether it was rogue, misconfigured, or a legitimate temporary AP.