Certified Network Defender (CND) — Question 170

Fred is a network technician working for Johnson Services, a temporary employment agency in Boston. Johnson Services has three remote offices in New
England and the headquarters in Boston where Fred works. The company relies on a number of customized applications to perform daily tasks and unfortunately these applications require users to be local administrators. Because of this, Fred's supervisor wants to implement tighter security measures in other areas to compensate for the inherent risks in making those users local admins. Fred's boss wants a solution that will be placed on all computers throughout the company and monitored by Fred. This solution will gather information on all network traffic to and from the local computers without actually affecting the traffic. What type of solution does Fred's boss want to implement?

Answer options

• A. Fred's boss wants Fred to monitor a NIPS system.
• B. Fred's boss wants to implement a HIDS solution.
• C. Fred's boss wants a NIDS implementation.
• D. Fred's boss wants to implement a HIPS solution.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B, as a HIDS (Host Intrusion Detection System) is designed to monitor and analyze the internals of a computing system, making it suitable for tracking network traffic without affecting it. The other options, such as NIPS and NIDS, focus on network monitoring instead of host-based monitoring, which does not align with the requirement to gather information from local computers specifically.