Security
In the past, security was mostly required by government and financial sectors. However, the e-commerce revolution is exposing more businesses to the potential of unauthorized access to confidential data and attacks by hackers or viruses.
Malicious hackers attempt to modify business data for the purpose of satisfying their own egos, whereas sophisticated hackers steal business data in an attempt to profit financially. Security breaches can result in partial outages, or even the total demise of an established business.
Denial of service (DoS) attacks involve malicious, repetitive requests into an application with the intention of depleting application and system resources. DoS attacks are less severe, from a security standpoint, than those ...
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