The IT Manager has mandated that an extensible markup language be implemented which can be
used to exchange provisioning requests and responses for account creation. Which of the
following is BEST able to achieve this?

A company is planning to deploy an in-house Security Operations Center (SOC).
One of the new requirements is to deploy a NIPS solution into the Internet facing environment.
The SOC highlighted the following requirements:
Perform fingerprinting on unfiltered inbound traffic to the company
Monitor all inbound and outbound traffic to the DMZ’s
In which of the following places should the NIPS be placed in the network?

A company recently experienced a malware outbreak. It was caused by a vendor using an
approved non-company device on the company’s corporate network that impacted manufacturing
lines, causing a week of downtime to recover from the attack.
Which of the following reduces this threat and minimizes potential impact on the manufacturing
lines?