Question 10
A campus network engineer reports the following condition: A conference guest authenticates successfully and can browse the Internet, but the resulting network policy also permits connections to private payroll applications. What configuration dependency explains these observations?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The underlying principle is: Successful portal login authenticates the visitor but does not inherently restrict the final authorization profile to public Internet destinations. Address this by: Assign a guest-only authorization result using a dedicated guest VLAN and effective ACL or equivalent network enforcement. The confirming operational observation is: A guest reaches approved external services but cannot open internal payroll or management destinations after successful portal login.
Incorrect Answers
An existing guest network session needs a supported authorization refresh such as RADIUS CoA for its final access result to replace the redirection permissions. “Verify CoA support, NAD session identifiers and authorization-change connectivity, then trigger the correct session reauthorization after guest login” would remedy that alternative situation, but it would not correct the present issue: successful portal login authenticates the visitor but does not inherently restrict the final authorization profile to public Internet destinations.
“Review the controller platform's supported redirection and final ACL or VLAN attributes and align ISE authorization profiles accordingly” is the supported response when ISE must return a network device-compatible RADIUS result, and the controller must map that result into the correct guest authorization behavior. Here the decisive response is “Assign a guest-only authorization result using a dedicated guest VLAN and effective ACL or equivalent network enforcement”, so that different intervention does not meet the stated requirement.
Portal authentication uses the identity source or source sequence selected for that portal, which can be separate from corporate employee authentication policies. “Set the guest portal authentication source to the intended internal or approved external guest identity store and leave employee authentication on its own policy” applies to that other condition. The reported evidence is a conference guest authenticates successfully and can browse the Internet, but the resulting network policy also permits connections to private payroll applications; this alternative would address the wrong dependency.