ABC Enterprise is a global operation. As such, it needs to send regular, confidential messages and data between offices to communicate important market information, employee decisions, financial decisions, etc., for management consideration and senior-level decision making. Since these decisions impact the local employees and global businesses, they suspect that these data may be prone to attacks from threat actors internally and externally. While one of the senior systems administrators suggested implementing steganography to achieve this objective, the IT Department head at another branch suggested implementing cryptography. The management team has now called you for expert advice to select the best method to implement in the enterprise. What should your advice be, and why?

A: Steganography should be implemented because it allows information to be viewed only by authorized users and checks whether information has been altered or changed by anybody. It also makes the information unclear so that even if other users see the information, they will not understand it. Steganography is a more advanced technology than cryptography. These features make steganography the right choice for the enterprise to implement.

B: Steganography should be implemented because it provides functionality to verify and ensure that the message is from an authentic sender. It also makes the message unclear, even if the message is intercepted by a threat actor and identified from the file where steganography is implemented, making it very secure.

C: Cryptography should be implemented because it embeds the actual message in a different message before transmission. This makes the information difficult to identify and helps identify the sender, making it very secure and the right choice to implement for the enterprise.

D: Cryptography should be implemented because it allows information to be viewed only by authorized users and checks whether the information has been altered or changed by anybody. It also makes the information unclear, even if other users see it. Cryptography is a more advanced technology than steganography. These features make cryptography the right choice for the enterprise to implement.