Which term is software protecting individual devices from threats?

• A. Personal Firewalls
• B. Anti-Malware Software
• C. Collective Intelligence
• D. Detection

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is how endpoint protection controls network access for a single device. A personal firewall is software that sits on the device and watches all traffic coming in and going out. It enforces rules about what connections are allowed, blocks unauthorized access attempts, and can stop traffic that looks suspicious. By doing this, it directly shields the device from threats that travel over the network, such as someone trying to reach the device from the internet or from other devices on the same network.

Anti-malware software, while crucial, focuses on identifying and removing malicious programs already on the device or that try to run, rather than actively filtering network traffic at the entry point. Collective intelligence describes shared security data across systems, not a mechanism that protects a single device by itself. Detection is about recognizing threats, which is only part of protection and doesn’t specify how the device is guarded.

So, the term that best fits software protecting individual devices from threats is personal firewalls.