Selected 300-740 CCNP Security Questions Answers

Automation of containment and response actions—such as isolating compromised endpoints and applying predefined security policies—is a critical capability of Cisco’s XDR and SecureX platform. According to SCAZT Section 6: Threat Response (Pages 112–117), automating threat containment allows security teams to rapidly limit the blast radius of incidents and improve mean time to respond (MTTR), without relying solely on manual intervention.

The policy includes three rules under the Apps scope. Rule #1 allows HR to communicate with IT on TCP port 23 (Telnet), but it is marked as “Default.” Rule #2 denies the same HR-to-IT Telnet traffic and is marked as “Absolute,” which takes precedence over any default rule. In Cisco Secure Workload (Tetration), an “Absolute” rule will override both “Default” and inherited rules. Therefore, even though there’s an allow in Rule #1, the deny in Rule #2 prevents HR from using Telnet to connect to IT.