Question 60
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. An independent validation is requested for: Local FortiGate storage fills with detailed traffic logs and causes early loss of evidence needed for the regulatory retention period. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A historical test event remains searchable over the required retention window without saturating the firewall's limited local storage. This outcome validates the intended correction for: Local FortiGate storage fills with detailed traffic logs and causes early loss of evidence needed for the regulatory retention period. The associated approved corrective action is: Choose an appropriate FortiAnalyzer, FortiGate Cloud or supported remote log destination and set a documented retention policy. The Harborview Insurance reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
Audit events attribute authorized administrative changes to individual accounts and the retired shared credential no longer authenticates. This would verify a separate corrective action: Replace the shared credential with distinct strong administrator accounts and the supported authentication controls required by policy. That separate change addresses: A FortiGate local administrator password remains at a shared deployment value and multiple operators have no attributable identities. It does not validate the current Harborview Insurance issue: Local FortiGate storage fills with detailed traffic logs and causes early loss of evidence needed for the regulatory retention period. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A historical test event remains searchable over the required retention window without saturating the firewall's limited local storage.
Both appliances form the expected HA cluster and report healthy configuration synchronization and a clear primary or secondary role. This would verify a separate corrective action: Align the cluster members to a supported compatible FortiOS version and configure matching HA settings and heartbeat connectivity. That separate change addresses: Two FortiGate appliances expected to form an FGCP high-availability cluster use incompatible firmware versions and do not synchronize. It does not validate the current Harborview Insurance issue: Local FortiGate storage fills with detailed traffic logs and causes early loss of evidence needed for the regulatory retention period. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A historical test event remains searchable over the required retention window without saturating the firewall's limited local storage.
A bidirectional test follows the intended interfaces and a previously missing route or policy decision is visible in the trace. This would verify a separate corrective action: Verify ingress interface, source and destination addresses, policy match, routing and return path using the firewall's scoped diagnostics. That separate change addresses: One client subnet cannot reach an internal service, but administrators only inspect security profiles and ignore return paths and interface roles. It does not validate the current Harborview Insurance issue: Local FortiGate storage fills with detailed traffic logs and causes early loss of evidence needed for the regulatory retention period. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A historical test event remains searchable over the required retention window without saturating the firewall's limited local storage.