In which of the following places should the NIPS be placed in the network?

A company is planning to deploy an in-house Security Operations Center (SOC). One of the new requirements is to deploy a NIPS solution into the Internet facing environment.

The SOC highlighted the following requirements:

– Perform fingerprinting on unfiltered inbound traffic to the company

– Monitor all inbound and outbound traffic to the DMZ’s

In which of the following places should the NIPS be placed in the network?
A . In front of the Internet firewall and in front of the DMZs
B . In front of the Internet firewall and in front of the internal firewall
C . In front of the Internet firewall and behind the internal firewall
D . Behind the Internet firewall and in front of the DMZs

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Answer: A