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A Systems Administrator Is Receiving Multiple Alerts from the Company

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A systems administrator is receiving multiple alerts from the company NIPS. A review of the NIPS logs shows the following: reset both: 70.32.200.2:3194 -> 10.4.100.4:80 buffer overflow attempt reset both: 70.32.200.2:3230 -> 10.4.100.4:80 directory traversal attack reset client: 70.32.200.2:4019 -> 10.4.100.4:80 Blind SQL injection attack Which of the following should the systems administrator report back to management?


A) The company web server was attacked by an external source, and the NIPS blocked the attack.
B) The company web and SQL servers suffered a DoS caused by a misconfiguration of the NIPS.
C) An external attacker was able to compromise the SQL server using a vulnerable web application.
D) The NIPS should move from an inline mode to an out-of-band mode to reduce network latency.

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