Question 840
During a post-incident review at a logistics office, the original problem was: An analyst reviews SCM Command Center and sees healthy devices, then declares security posture acceptable without examining discovered risky applications. Which preventive practice most directly addresses its cause?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Include application and policy risk reviews in posture reporting. This control reduces recurrence of the documented mechanism: Infrastructure availability metrics do not alone measure application and threat risk. It creates a repeatable check around the needed response: Use Command Center and Activity Insights to examine application-risk trends and high-impact security findings.
Incorrect Answers
Require logging coverage validation before automated rule rationalization. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: Policy Optimizer recommends removing an obsolete port-based rule, but the firewall's application identification data is incomplete due to missing log ingestion. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Infrastructure availability metrics do not alone measure application and threat risk.
Set change-batch limits and post-change monitoring for rule cleanup. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A company uses Policy Optimizer findings to disable 50 rules at once without a rollback plan, disrupting regional month-end processing. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Infrastructure availability metrics do not alone measure application and threat risk.
Normalize posture trends by traffic cohorts and exposure scope. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: An engineer uses only a count of blocked threats as a posture score and ignores changing application usage and user populations. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Infrastructure availability metrics do not alone measure application and threat risk.