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10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know

eSecurity Planet

Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations. If your internal point-of-sale system goes down, you’re no longer able to complete in-store transactions until the server outage is fixed. And network users don’t just need to be authorized — they need to be authenticated, too.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Although beyond the scope of the network, effective network security relies upon the effective authentication of the user elsewhere in the security stack. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)

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