Darwin has purchased a laptop for the purpose of running his stock brokerage activities from home. He has contracted Navin, a network engineer, to install a software specifically for his workstation so that the software can protect the network from certain traffic. Analyze which of the following firewalls is best applicable in this scenario.
a. A host-based firewall
b. An HIDS
c. A network-based firewall
d. A proxy server
