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The dirty dozen: preventing common application-level hack attacks

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Overview As organizations have grown increasingly dependent on online software, the risk of malicious attacks has also become far more serious. Such attacks can bring a business to a standstill, cost a company millions of dollars in lost transactions and potentially tarnish its brand image.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP, Network Security, Security Management, Denial of Service, Intrusion Detection Systems

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