What is the primary purpose of stateful pattern recognition in Cisco IPS networks?
A.
mitigating man-in-the-middle attacks
B.
using multipacket inspection across all protocols to identify vulnerability-based attacks and to
thwart attacks that hide within a data stream
C.
detecting and preventing MAC address spoofing in switched environments
D.
identifying Layer 2 ARP attacks
Answer is correct:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/security/ips-4200-series-sensors/prod_brochure0900aecd805baea7.html
“Stateful pattern recognition-Identifies vulnerability-based attacks through the use of multipacket inspection across all protocols, thwarting attacks that hide within a data stream. “