Your company's online retail system has been experiencing irregular traffic patterns that lead to unplanned downtime, especially during peak shopping seasons. As a security professional tasked with enhancing system resilience, which of the following solutions would best ensure that the retail platform remains available and responsive under varying load conditions?
Installing more powerful security software to identify traffic anomalies and possible DDoS attacks
Upgrading the system to use a single, high-performance server that can handle more requests
Implementing redundant physical links to ensure network connectivity
Implementing load balancers to distribute the traffic across multiple servers
Implementing load balancers distributes traffic across multiple servers, reducing the burden on any single server and improving responsiveness and availability during peak times or a DDoS attack. Load balancers can also add or remove resources dynamically based on demand. Redundant physical links improve network resilience but do not relieve server load. Using a single high-performance server creates a single point of failure and still has capacity limits. Installing more powerful security software may help detect anomalies, but it does not distribute traffic.
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