7 Security and Privacy
Software security should always be a high priority for product developers and users. If you don’t prioritize security, you and your customers will inevitably suffer losses from malicious attacks. The aim of the attacks may be to steal data or hijack a computer for some criminal purpose. Some attacks try to extort money from a user by encrypting data and demanding a fee for the decryption key, or by threatening a denial of service attack on their servers.
In the worst case, these attacks could put product providers out of business. If providers are delivering a product as a service and it is unavailable or if customer data are compromised, customers are liable to cancel their subscriptions. Even if they can recover from ...
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