Which of the following can be said about the new firewall?

Ann, a security administrator, is conducting an assessment on a new firewall, which was placed at the perimeter of a network containing PII.

Ann runs the following commands on a server (10.0.1.19) behind the firewall:

From her own workstation (192.168.2.45) outside the firewall, Ann then runs a port scan against the server and records the following packet capture of the port scan:

Connectivity to the server from outside the firewall worked as expected prior to executing these commands.

Which of the following can be said about the new firewall?
A . It is correctly dropping all packets destined for the server.
B . It is not blocking or filtering any traffic to the server.
C . Iptables needs to be restarted.
D . The IDS functionality of the firewall is currently disabled.

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Answer: A