An organization's network engineering team recently deployed a new software encryption solution to ensure the confidentiality of data at rest, which was found to add 300ms of latency to data read-write requests in storage, impacting business operations. Which of the following alternative approaches would BEST address performance requirements while meeting the intended security objective?
A) Employ hardware FDE or SED solutions.
B) Utilize a more efficient cryptographic hash function.
C) Replace HDDs with SSD arrays.
D) Use a FIFO pipe a multithreaded software solution.

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Hardware Full Disk Encryption (FDE) or Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) can provide encryption with minimal impact on performance compared to software-based solutions, thus meeting both security and performance requirements.

An Organization's Network Engineering Team Recently Deployed a New Software