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WAN SECURITY

Mar 19, 2016 8:18AM PDT

What are the main securty breaches that happen to wide area networks and what defence strategies to they have in place?

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That's well discussed
Mar 19, 2016 8:25AM PDT
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Re: security breach
Mar 19, 2016 8:31AM PDT

Post was last edited on March 20, 2016 4:09 AM PDT

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Brute force
Apr 15, 2016 2:55AM PDT

I would say that hackers that use brute force to get past encrypted password would be the main breach. People have to have their defense systems in place to fight against this

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Trojans
Apr 15, 2016 9:43AM PDT

Trojans are dangerous in terms of when they override the network's firewall and gain access of the data they need before the DDOS attack is detected.