You have been asked to design a layered security solution for protecting your organization's net-work infrastructure. You research several options and decide to deploy a network-level security con-trol appliance, inline, where traffic is intercepted and analyzed prior to being forwarded to its final destination, such as an application server. Which of the following is NOT considered an inline threat protection technology?
A) Intrusion prevention systems
B) Third-party firewall devices installed on Amazon EC2 instances
C) Data loss management gateways
D) Augmented security groups with Network ACLs

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Augmented security groups with Network ACLs are not considered inline threat protection technologies. They are used for controlling inbound and outbound traffic at the network and instance level, but they do not intercept and analyze traffic inline like the other options.

You Have Been Asked to Design a Layered Security Solution