An organization uses SSO authentication for employee access to network resources. When an employee resigns, as per the organization's security policy, the employee's access to all network resources…

Approving the request is incorrect because the former employee's access was explicitly terminated as per policy, and re-enabling it via a password reset would violate that policy.

While the external origin might prompt verification, the primary reason for denial is that the employee's access was already terminated, making any password reset attempt for an inactive account illegitimate.

Denying the password reset request is the correct action because the organization's security policy states that a resigning employee's access to all network resources is terminated immediately. Reinstating access, even for a password reset, would violate this policy and introduce a security risk by potentially allowing unauthorized access to network resources.

Approving the request is incorrect as it directly contradicts the security policy requiring immediate termination of all access for resigned employees, thereby creating a security vulnerability.