Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v13 312-50v13 — Question 304

You are Sophia Bennett, an ethical hacker at Nexus Cyber Defense, tasked with evaluating the security of a smart retail store’s IoT network in San Francisco, California. During your assessment, you uncover a vulnerability in the store’s smart inventory sensors that could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access. The flaw lies in a cloud-based communication process that lacks authentication and encryption and fails to properly validate data exchange between the sensors and the cloud management platform. Based on the described vulnerability, which IoT attack surface area are you addressing in your findings?