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Start Cloud Security Architecture PracticeAn organization is deploying Cisco Umbrella SIG to enforce Zero Trust access. You must configure the selective decryption policy. Which setting ensures that specific sensitive traffic, such as financial and healthcare sites, is bypassed for inspection to comply with privacy regulations?
Explanation: In Cisco Umbrella SIG selective decryption, the Web Policy rule controls which traffic is decrypted for inspection. To comply with privacy regulations for financial and healthcare sites, you configure a Web Policy rule with a 'Decrypt' action and add those sensitive categories to the 'Bypass' list, so their TLS traffic is not decrypted while other traffic is inspected.
A network architect is deploying Cisco Umbrella SIG to enforce Zero Trust access. Which mechanism provides the initial posture assessment before allowing a user to access a SaaS application via the Secure Web Gateway?
Explanation: The Cisco Umbrella Roaming Client or AnyConnect module performs device posture checks before establishing the tunnel.
Which TWO components are essential for implementing a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) model using Cisco Duo and Secure Access?
Explanation: Duo Authentication Proxy (A) is essential because it acts as the on-premises broker that forwards authentication requests from Duo's cloud service to the local identity sources (such as Active Directory or RADIUS/LDAP), enabling identity verification for ZTNA. Cisco Secure Access Connector (C) is essential because it establishes the outbound-only tunnel from the private network to Cisco's Secure Access cloud, publishing internal applications so that ZTNA policies can be enforced per user and per app without exposing the network. The other options are not required components of this Duo plus Secure Access ZTNA design: Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (B) is a firewall management platform, Cisco ISE (D) is a NAC/policy server for network access control, and Umbrella Virtual Appliance (E) is used for DNS-layer security and local DNS forwarding, none of which are the essential ZTNA components in this scenario.
You are integrating Cisco Duo with an on-premises application that does not support SAML. How should you design the access flow to achieve Zero Trust authentication using the Duo Access Gateway (DAG)?
Explanation: For legacy applications that lack native SAML support, the Duo Access Gateway (DAG) acts as a SAML service provider for the application and a SAML identity provider for the identity source.
In a SASE deployment using Cisco SD-WAN and Umbrella, how is traffic steered to the cloud security stack when a branch router loses its direct tunnel connection to the Umbrella SIG headend?
Explanation: In a Cisco SD-WAN and Umbrella SASE deployment, when a branch router loses its direct tunnel to the primary Umbrella SIG headend, the SD-WAN fabric automatically fails over to a secondary Umbrella SIG data center. This automated tunnel failover maintains security inspection and connectivity without manual intervention.
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