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.

Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the best recommendation for this scenario would be to implement an endpoint management server appliance. This is a device or software that will allow the company to discover, manage and control all devices that are attempting to connect to the company's network. Allowing also to be able to restrict certain rights or access to the device.