A company is growing and now has $200$ procurement agents who buy a wide variety of products on behalf of many large corporations. They often access a series of approved vendor websites, but access speeds seem to be deteriorating with every new agent they hire. Which of the following can they implement to help improve performance and security?

Group of answer choices

Secure load$-$balancing technology for the local network

A web application firewall

A reverse proxy server

A forward proxy server