Question 100
A risk review at a financial services branch focuses on preventing this issue again: A school wants malicious web categories blocked but keeps a URL Filtering profile action set to alert, causing allowed traffic to continue. Which recurring control is most suitable?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Periodically review category actions against the organization's web-risk policy. This control reduces recurrence of the documented mechanism: Alert in a URL Filtering profile means visibility rather than required prevention. It creates a repeatable check around the needed response: Set the targeted URL categories to the approved block action and attach the profile to the corresponding allow policies.
Incorrect Answers
Regression-test representative file types and upload/download directions after profile edits. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A remote office receives suspicious executable downloads while its file-blocking profile only prohibits compressed archives, not the executable type specified in policy. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Alert in a URL Filtering profile means visibility rather than required prevention.
Audit every Internet allow rule for its complete required profile group. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A branch Security rule allows employee web browsing but attaches only URL Filtering, leaving malware downloads unscanned by its intended threat controls. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Alert in a URL Filtering profile means visibility rather than required prevention.
Add a policy-to-profile attachment validation to DNS threat-control reviews. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A custom Anti-Spyware profile sends suspicious DNS answers to a sinkhole while the analyst expects the same response from a rule that has no profile attached. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Alert in a URL Filtering profile means visibility rather than required prevention.