An audit reveals employees have been installing personal software on company wor

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An audit reveals employees have been installing personal software on company workstations. Further investigation does not show any unusual spikes in network traffic to support the theory that software is being downloaded via the Internet. The desktop manager suggests removing the employees from local administrator group on the computers, however, this would cause the monitoring software that runs on the devices to stop functioning while those employees are logged into the computers. The human resources department wants the solution to provide user accountability for future disciplinary actions. Which of the following would be the BEST choice to permanently correct this issue? Upgrade the web content filter to a device capable of monitoring, scanning, and filtering SSL traffic, and send weekly usage logs to department managers Institute an application whitelist that only allows approved programs to be installed on the computers and sends alerts for attempted software installations o C Implement a DLP solution that automatically blocks all access to devices that utilize the USB ports and sends alerts to desktop support when devices are plugged in O D. Add the employees to the domain administrators group on the devices so they can install any key applications, and enable system access logging and alerts

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In case if any such software is being installed to the computer the best way to prevent this activity is to install a software which would help prevent installation of softwares which are not supposed to be.

B) Institute an application whitelist which only allows approved programs to be installed on the computers and sends alerts for attempted software installation.

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