What is a term for programs or devices able to examine traffic on a LAN segment?
A)Statistical anomaly-based IDS
B)Network Sniffers
C)Network-based Detection
D)Host-based Detection

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Network sniffers are programs or devices able to examine traffic on a LAN segment. Traffic that is being transferred over a network medium is transmitted as electrical signals, encoded in binary representation. The sniffer has to have a protocol-analysis capability to recognize the different protocol values to properly interpret their meaning. The sniffer has to have access to a network adapter that works in promiscuous mode and a driver that captures the data.

What Is a Term for Programs or Devices Able to Examine