Which characteristic is MOST closely associated with the deployment of a demilitarized zone (DMZ)?

In cybersecurity, a demilitarized zone (DMZ) refers to a physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization's external-facing services to an untrusted network, typically the internet. The main characteristic of a DMZ is that it acts as a buffer zone between the public internet and the private network. This allows for internet access through the firewall while keeping the internal network secure. Internet-facing servers are placed in the DMZ so that they are separated from the rest of the internal network. By doing so, if a server in the DMZ is compromised, the attacker would not have direct access to the internal network. This architecture is commonly used to host services such as web servers, mail servers, and FTP servers. Choice C is the most closely associated with the deployment of a DMZ as it allows for regulated and monitored internet access through a firewall.