Your company is experiencing an increase in malware incidents. Your manager is asking for advice on how best to verify that company-owned workstations are up-to-date with security patches, anti-malware requirements, and software application updates. The manager is also concerned that employee-owned devices connecting to the corporate LAN have the same level of security as the company devices.

Which of the following protections and services should you recommend?
a. Implement a firewall with packet inspection.
b. Implement an intrusion detection system appliance.
c. Implement an endpoint management server appliance.
d. Implement an intrusion prevention system.