Which two benefits are of protecting the control plane of a network device? (Choose two.)

The control plane handles routing protocol updates, management plane traffic, and device health functions; securing it with mechanisms like Control Plane Policing (CoPP) prevents CPU exhaustion and keeps the network reliable, secure, and available even under attack conditions.

Control plane protection specifically guards against DoS attacks directed at the router or switch CPU itself - such as floods of routing protocol packets, excessive ICMP, or crafted management traffic - which are targeted at network infrastructure devices rather than end hosts.

Separating attack traffic from normal user traffic is a function performed by traffic scrubbing centers, IPS/IDS, or ACLs at the data plane level, not by control plane protection.

Data flowing through devices traverses the data plane (forwarding plane); control plane protection does not inspect or secure transit user data packets.