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10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know

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Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations. For customers like retailers, as well as banks and business software providers, an outage like this can be a blow to your reputation as well as a financial loss. Honeypots A computer system specifically designed to trap attackers is called a honeypot.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

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Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Deception technology using honeypots and similar subterfuge can trigger alerts of both hackers and authorized users that might be attempting to perform malicious actions. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)