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After a recent security breach, a financial company is reassessing their overall security posture and strategy to better protect sensitive data and resources. The company already\ deployed on…
The correct answer is A. host-based firewall. A host-based firewall runs directly on endpoint devices, providing traffic filtering and protection at the endpoint level. This adds another layer of defense beyond the network edge firewalls, ensuring threats are mitigated closer to where sensitive data resides.
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After a recent security breach, a financial company is reassessing their overall security posture and strategy to better protect sensitive data and resources. The company already\ deployed on- premises next-generation firewalls at the network edge for each branch location. Security measures must be enhanced at the endpoint level. The goal is to implement a solution that provides additional traffic filtering directly on endpoint devices, thereby offering another layer of defense against potential threats. Which technology must be implemented to meet the requirement?
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- Ahost-based firewall
- Bweb application firewall
- Cdistributed firewall
- Dtraditional firewall
How the community answered
(19 responses)- A84% (16)
- B5% (1)
- D11% (2)
Explanation
A host-based firewall runs directly on endpoint devices, providing traffic filtering and protection at the endpoint level. This adds another layer of defense beyond the network edge firewalls, ensuring threats are mitigated closer to where sensitive data resides.
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