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A B-to-C e-commerce web site as part of its information
security program wants to monitor, detect and prevent
hacking activities and alert the system administrator when
suspicious activities occur. Which of the following
infrastructure components could be used for this purpose?
A. Intrusion detection systems
B. Firewalls
C. Routers
D. Asymmetric encryption
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Answer: A
Intrusion detection systems detect intrusion activity based
on the intrusion rules. It can detect both, external and
internal intrusion activity and send an automated alarm
message. Firewalls and routers prevent the unwanted and
well-defined communications between the internal and
external networks. They do not have any automatic alarm
messaging systems.
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