Question 880
The team at an airport terminal has corrected this condition: An AP reports repeated suspicious deauthentication frames, but the incident team treats them as ordinary association retries. Which preventive practice BEST addresses the identified mechanism?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Include WIDS deauth-event triage and PMF checks in security operations procedures. This repeatable safeguard addresses the mechanism—unexpected management-frame activity can be a wireless attack indicator rather than simple RF congestion—and reduces the chance that the specific fault recurs.
Incorrect Answers
Correlate wireless detections with approved AP inventory before enforcement. This protects against another issue—a security administrator sees an unknown AP broadcasting the corporate SSID and immediately disables every legitimate AP in the site—but is not the most direct prevention for an AP reports repeated suspicious deauthentication frames, but the incident team treats them as ordinary association retries.
Test IdP redirect and return paths before enabling federated guest authorization. This protects against another issue—an organization wants guests to authenticate through its existing identity provider but has configured a local static portal form—but is not the most direct prevention for an AP reports repeated suspicious deauthentication frames, but the incident team treats them as ordinary association retries.
Document detection, investigation and legal response thresholds for wireless threats. This protects against another issue—a campus enables wireless intrusion detection but expects it to automatically block every rogue transmitter without separate policy review—but is not the most direct prevention for an AP reports repeated suspicious deauthentication frames, but the incident team treats them as ordinary association retries.