A company's web server is under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, causing service degradation. The incident response team needs to mitigate the attack while maintaining availability for legitimate users. Which containment strategy is MOST appropriate?

Shut down the web server and wait for the attack to end.

Disconnect the web server from the internet.

Increase the server's bandwidth to absorb the attack.

Implement rate limiting and traffic filtering at the perimeter.

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