Question 770
At Alpine Healthcare, the clinical infrastructure security team administers FortiGate-based protection for multiple clinics connected to private records systems under requirements for patient-data access control and high uptime. The security reviewer verifies a claimed fix for: SD-WAN moves an outbound client to a backup ISP but the FortiGate source NAT pool still uses a public address belonging to the failed primary ISP. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A new failover test session exits through the backup link using a reachable approved public source address. This outcome validates the intended correction for: SD-WAN moves an outbound client to a backup ISP but the FortiGate source NAT pool still uses a public address belonging to the failed primary ISP. The associated approved corrective action is: Align NAT egress behavior with the selected SD-WAN member and the valid public addresses for each provider. The Alpine Healthcare reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
A legitimate multihomed test path is accepted and obviously spoofed-source traffic remains denied under the approved policy. This would verify a separate corrective action: Analyze reverse path forwarding expectations and correct asymmetric routing or supported RPF configuration without disabling security globally. That separate change addresses: FortiGate drops packets from a multihomed client because reverse path validation sees the source through another interface. It does not validate the current Alpine Healthcare issue: SD-WAN moves an outbound client to a backup ISP but the FortiGate source NAT pool still uses a public address belonging to the failed primary ISP. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A new failover test session exits through the backup link using a reachable approved public source address.
The remote test endpoint observes the intended FortiGate source IP and the local-out probe follows the expected gateway. This would verify a separate corrective action: Configure the supported local-out source interface and address for the diagnostic or management traffic independently of transit routing. That separate change addresses: A packet capture shows traffic on the expected ingress port but the firewall replies using the wrong source address for its own local-out probe. It does not validate the current Alpine Healthcare issue: SD-WAN moves an outbound client to a backup ISP but the FortiGate source NAT pool still uses a public address belonging to the failed primary ISP. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A new failover test session exits through the backup link using a reachable approved public source address.
A controlled request to the obsolete prefix is discarded locally while more specific valid routes continue to forward traffic. This would verify a separate corrective action: Use an appropriately scoped blackhole route for the obsolete destination prefix with a deliberate distance and precedence. That separate change addresses: A routing loop sends packets toward a decommissioned network because no explicit safe discard route exists for an obsolete summary prefix. It does not validate the current Alpine Healthcare issue: SD-WAN moves an outbound client to a backup ISP but the FortiGate source NAT pool still uses a public address belonging to the failed primary ISP. The relevant acceptance evidence is: A new failover test session exits through the backup link using a reachable approved public source address.