Question 680
During a FortiAnalyzer incident investigation, the analysts observe: A spike in traffic causes storage pressure and an operator wants to delete raw archive logs without understanding policy for analytics and reports. Which action directly fixes the identified FortiAnalyzer workflow issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The underlying cause is: Deleting a raw archive is not an equivalent remedy for every analytics database or retention problem and risks destroying evidence. The correct response is: Inspect disk usage by log type and storage tier and choose an approved data-policy or capacity change that preserves mandated evidence. Confirm by checking: Storage utilization improves while the required Analytics reporting period and compliant archive copies remain accessible.
Incorrect Answers
That intervention addresses ioc subscription state and threat intelligence, where Indicator matching capabilities that depend on licensed FortiGuard content can stop refreshing even while historical logs continue to arrive. Here, the relevant failure is instead: Deleting a raw archive is not an equivalent remedy for every analytics database or retention problem and risks destroying evidence.
That intervention addresses adom log role access versus global login, where Successful login does not automatically confer authorized log-view rights or an assignment to the affected administrative domain. In this question the necessary remedy is “Inspect disk usage by log type and storage tier and choose an approved data-policy or capacity change that preserves mandated evidence”, which this alternative does not provide.
That intervention addresses security fabric correlation without time alignment, where Independent device time formats and offsets can create a misleading chain when normalized event times are not aligned. The observed condition is a spike in traffic causes storage pressure and an operator wants to delete raw archive logs without understanding policy for analytics and reports; this mechanism addresses another problem.