one of the customer's top priorities is to mitigate the risks posed by an increasing number of personal devices and IOT for a company with between 1,387 and 4,026 employees. What should you…

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• AUnified infrastructure facilitates integration and simplifies management
• BZero trust increases network protection levels while decreasing operational complexity
• CAIOPS can reduce errors and unplanned network outages
• DAs-a-service solutions allow customers to consume technology now that they want to

• A
  7% (4)
• B
  76% (41)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  15% (8)

Explanation

Zero Trust directly addresses the core problem - unmanaged personal devices and IoT endpoints expand the attack surface because they can't be assumed safe simply by being on the network. The "never trust, always verify" model enforces continuous authentication and least-privilege access for every device, regardless of location, which is precisely what mitigates BYOD/IoT risk while policy-based automation keeps operational complexity manageable.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Unified infrastructure) addresses integration and management efficiency, not security risk from untrusted devices - it's an operations story, not a threat mitigation story.
• C (AIOps) reduces outages and operational errors through AI-driven automation, but doesn't address the trust and access control problems that personal devices and IoT introduce.
• D (As-a-service) is about consumption flexibility and procurement, completely unrelated to mitigating device-based security risks.

Memory tip: Match the problem to the framework - IoT/BYOD = untrusted devices = Zero Trust. When you see "mitigate risk from unknown/unmanaged devices," the answer will almost always be Zero Trust, because it's the only model built around the assumption that no device is inherently trustworthy.

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