Question 880
At Granite SaaS, the platform network security team administers FortiGate-based protection for a hosted business application and remote administrator fleet under requirements for per-tenant access restrictions and reliable telemetry. Following the approved change, the team must validate: Remote employee devices must use a managed FortiClient IPsec remote-access connection, but the gateway has only a site-to-site peer policy. Which observed outcome BEST demonstrates that the intended correction works?
Explanation
Correct Answer
An authorized FortiClient test user obtains the intended remote-access session and reaches only the permitted internal service. This outcome validates the intended correction for: Remote employee devices must use a managed FortiClient IPsec remote-access connection, but the gateway has only a site-to-site peer policy. The associated approved corrective action is: Configure the supported FortiGate remote-access IPsec authentication and address-assignment method with the relevant user group and access policy. The Granite SaaS reviewer can therefore distinguish observable protection from an untested configuration claim.
Incorrect Answers
A representative large-file test completes without fragmentation black-holes or sustained retransmission stalls over the VPN. This would verify a separate corrective action: Investigate effective tunnel MTU and supported TCP MSS adjustments or PMTU discovery along the entire route. That separate change addresses: Small packets traverse a FortiGate IPsec VPN but large TCP data transfers stall because encapsulation lowers the path MTU. It does not validate the current Granite SaaS issue: Remote employee devices must use a managed FortiClient IPsec remote-access connection, but the gateway has only a site-to-site peer policy. The relevant acceptance evidence is: An authorized FortiClient test user obtains the intended remote-access session and reaches only the permitted internal service.
The tunnel negotiates through the NAT device and protected test packets exchange successfully under the expected encapsulation. This would verify a separate corrective action: Configure supported IPsec NAT traversal and verify that the relevant IKE and UDP 4500 paths are reachable through approved upstream rules. That separate change addresses: A FortiGate IPsec connection is behind an upstream NAT and peers fail to carry ESP traffic using the expected transport. It does not validate the current Granite SaaS issue: Remote employee devices must use a managed FortiClient IPsec remote-access connection, but the gateway has only a site-to-site peer policy. The relevant acceptance evidence is: An authorized FortiClient test user obtains the intended remote-access session and reaches only the permitted internal service.
A controlled test identifies the exact missing forwarding prerequisite rather than treating an established IKE SA as proof of end-to-end service. This would verify a separate corrective action: Check tunnel SA state together with selectors, routes, firewall policies and local or remote session counters. That separate change addresses: An IPsec tunnel interface appears active but the engineer tries to debug application failures only by looking at Phase 1 negotiation logs. It does not validate the current Granite SaaS issue: Remote employee devices must use a managed FortiClient IPsec remote-access connection, but the gateway has only a site-to-site peer policy. The relevant acceptance evidence is: An authorized FortiClient test user obtains the intended remote-access session and reaches only the permitted internal service.