Eleanor is trying to secure a couple of servers that she manages. After hardening the servers, she installs a piece of software on each of them that will detect intrusions, log the event, and notify the administration team. She does not want it to automatically stop the intrusions due to the possibility of false positives. Which of the following has she installed?
A) HIDS
B) HIPS
C) NIDS
D) NIPS

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Eleanor has installed a Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS), which monitors and analyzes the internals of a computing system as well as the network packets on its network interfaces. It detects intrusions, logs events, and notifies the administration team without automatically stopping the intrusions, differentiating it from a Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS) that would actively try to stop the intrusions.

Eleanor Is Trying to Secure a Couple of Servers That