Question 800
Following an incident at a retail distribution center, the WLAN team documented this condition: A WLAN moves from a small local MPSK inventory to external RADIUS-backed PSK lookup, but the RADIUS service is unreachable. Which ongoing safeguard MOST directly prevents recurrence?
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Correct Answer
Document MPSK lookup architecture and test identity backend failure modes. This repeatable safeguard addresses the mechanism—local key lookup and RADIUS-backed PSK lookup have different runtime service dependencies—and reduces the chance that the specific fault recurs.
Incorrect Answers
Assign manageable PSK identities and rotation ownership per IoT device group. This protects against another issue—a warehouse shares one WPA2 password across all robots and cannot revoke one compromised unit without disrupting the fleet—but is not the most direct prevention for a WLAN moves from a small local MPSK inventory to external RADIUS-backed PSK lookup, but the RADIUS service is unreachable.
Exercise guest portal outage behavior in every sensitive WLAN security review. This protects against another issue—a guest authentication service is down and a configured bypass option silently authorizes new guests even though policy requires fail-closed access—but is not the most direct prevention for a WLAN moves from a small local MPSK inventory to external RADIUS-backed PSK lookup, but the RADIUS service is unreachable.
Schedule expiry and rotation checks for temporary MPSK assignments. This protects against another issue—a terminated contractor's MPSK still grants WLAN access months after their authorized visit ended—but is not the most direct prevention for a WLAN moves from a small local MPSK inventory to external RADIUS-backed PSK lookup, but the RADIUS service is unreachable.