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10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know

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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. 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.)

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