Question 500
At Harborview Insurance, the security architecture team administers FortiGate-based protection for regional claims offices and cloud-hosted services under requirements for auditable firewall changes and defended remote access. The security reviewer verifies a claimed fix for: An HTTPS URL filter exception appears ineffective because the firewall matches a certificate-only inspection profile with no decrypted path visibility. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The test demonstrates correct path-aware evaluation after decryption instead of assuming a certificate-only handshake reveals the path. This outcome validates the intended correction for: An HTTPS URL filter exception appears ineffective because the firewall matches a certificate-only inspection profile with no decrypted path visibility. The associated approved corrective action is: Confirm whether the requested URL match requires deep SSL inspection and select a supported inspection policy with proper endpoint trust. The Harborview Insurance reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
A safe test submission reaches the intended sandbox service and its verdict can be correlated with the firewall antivirus event. This would verify a separate corrective action: Configure the supported FortiSandbox or appropriate cloud sandbox integration and required submission path for eligible files. That separate change addresses: A FortiGate malware investigation expects remote sandbox verdicts but the approved sandbox connection is not configured or reachable. It does not validate the current Harborview Insurance issue: An HTTPS URL filter exception appears ineffective because the firewall matches a certificate-only inspection profile with no decrypted path visibility. The relevant acceptance evidence is: The test demonstrates correct path-aware evaluation after decryption instead of assuming a certificate-only handshake reveals the path.
The known harmless business archive passes and a separate antivirus test detection is still handled by the profile. This would verify a separate corrective action: Correct the file-type rule or antivirus exception to the specific approved risk without disabling scanning for other transfers. That separate change addresses: The malware policy blocks all files with one archive type after an overly broad filter was added during incident response. It does not validate the current Harborview Insurance issue: An HTTPS URL filter exception appears ineffective because the firewall matches a certificate-only inspection profile with no decrypted path visibility. The relevant acceptance evidence is: The test demonstrates correct path-aware evaluation after decryption instead of assuming a certificate-only handshake reveals the path.
A blocked test session has an attributable application signature event and the analyst can distinguish it from a base firewall denial. This would verify a separate corrective action: Enable appropriate application-control logging and correlate signatures, policy IDs, users and timestamps for a controlled test. That separate change addresses: The application-control sensor is installed but no usable event logs identify which signature caused a business application to stop working. It does not validate the current Harborview Insurance issue: An HTTPS URL filter exception appears ineffective because the firewall matches a certificate-only inspection profile with no decrypted path visibility. The relevant acceptance evidence is: The test demonstrates correct path-aware evaluation after decryption instead of assuming a certificate-only handshake reveals the path.