Stacy aims to safeguard the desktop and laptop systems in her organization against network attacks. She intends to implement a solution that can proactively prevent attacks using signatures, heuristics, and anomalies. What kind of tool should she deploy?

A HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System) is capable of surveiling network traffic to detect attacks, unusual activities, and known malicious patterns by leveraging signatures. Firewalls restrict traffic based on rules; antimalware software is tailored to block malware, not attacks or anomalous network behavior; and a HIDS (Host-based Intrusion Detection System) can only recognize, but not prevent, such behavior.