XSIAM-Engineer XSIAM Platform Architecture And Deployment Practice Question
An enterprise environment utilizes a strict certificate-based Proxy for all outbound internet connections. During the deployment of Cortex XDR agents via software deployment tools, the agents fail to establish a connection to the XSIAM tenant because they do not trust the proxy's interception certificate. How should this be resolved?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Deploy the enterprise root CA certificate to the endpoint's trusted root certificate store and configure agent proxy settings using the appropriate installer properties.
Agents must be configured with proxy settings and the enterprise proxy's root CA certificate must be trusted by the endpoint operating system certificate store so the agent can negotiate TLS through the forward proxy.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Uninstall the Cortex XDR agent and replace it with a standard syslog forwarding daemon.
Why it's wrong here
Syslog daemons do not provide endpoint threat protection.
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Deploy the enterprise root CA certificate to the endpoint's trusted root certificate store and configure agent proxy settings using the appropriate installer properties.
Why this is correct
Trusting the CA and passing proxy parameters to the installer enables secure communication through the forward proxy.
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Configure the proxy to bypass decryption exclusively for IP addresses belonging to the internal subnet.
Why it's wrong here
The traffic is going out to the XSIAM cloud tenant, not internal subnets.
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Disable TLS encryption on the Broker VM so the proxy can inspect traffic without validation errors.
Why it's wrong here
Disabling TLS is a severe security risk and not supported.
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