Question 430
At Eastshore Energy, the network engineering team administers FortiGate-based protection for remote service offices and central management systems under requirements for fault-tolerant WAN links and policy audit trails. Following the approved change, the team must validate: A FortiGate HTTPS content filter cannot evaluate a URL path because its policy uses only certificate inspection of encrypted traffic. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
An approved path-specific web rule evaluates the intended encrypted request without claiming visibility under certificate-only inspection. This outcome validates the intended correction for: A FortiGate HTTPS content filter cannot evaluate a URL path because its policy uses only certificate inspection of encrypted traffic. The associated approved corrective action is: Choose a supported full SSL/SSH inspection mode for endpoint-managed traffic when full URL-path controls are required. The Eastshore Energy reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
A permitted laboratory sample of the targeted application is denied with an application-control event and benign applications still connect. This would verify a separate corrective action: Change the specific application signature or category action to block while retaining logging for security review. That separate change addresses: An administrator configures an application-control rule only to monitor a high-risk application even though company policy requires blocking it. It does not validate the current Eastshore Energy issue: A FortiGate HTTPS content filter cannot evaluate a URL path because its policy uses only certificate inspection of encrypted traffic. The relevant acceptance evidence is: An approved path-specific web rule evaluates the intended encrypted request without claiming visibility under certificate-only inspection.
The approved collaboration flow works while a separate prohibited application in the same category remains blocked. This would verify a separate corrective action: Create a narrowly scoped application override for the approved signature, users and destinations without disabling the rest of the sensor. That separate change addresses: A help desk creates an unrestricted application-control exception for a single business collaboration app and unintentionally bypasses the whole category. It does not validate the current Eastshore Energy issue: A FortiGate HTTPS content filter cannot evaluate a URL path because its policy uses only certificate inspection of encrypted traffic. The relevant acceptance evidence is: An approved path-specific web rule evaluates the intended encrypted request without claiming visibility under certificate-only inspection.
A controlled blocked request can be traced to the relevant profile, category and user without collecting unrelated sensitive browser data. This would verify a separate corrective action: Enable appropriate web-filter and traffic logging and correlate policy ID, user, destination hostname and action over a bounded time range. That separate change addresses: Web-filter event records exist but lack enough destination details to explain a specific reported blocked browsing session. It does not validate the current Eastshore Energy issue: A FortiGate HTTPS content filter cannot evaluate a URL path because its policy uses only certificate inspection of encrypted traffic. The relevant acceptance evidence is: An approved path-specific web rule evaluates the intended encrypted request without claiming visibility under certificate-only inspection.