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This paper briefly explores the security threats posed to computer networks worldwide and provides an overview of how and why Intrusion Detection Protocol (IDP) is a valuable tool to combat security threats. The paper relates that IDP techniques will allow network administrators the tools necessary to harden their networks, thereby protecting personal, business, and global computer networks and resources.

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"Said dependence has made laptops, iPods, personal websites (such as facebook and myspace), E-mail, electronic marketing, and cellphones part of our everyday life. While one could certainly argue about the upside in all these advents in making us increasingly global, it also makes us vulnerable in ways that we have not been before.
"Myspace pages, for instance, get phished, leaving us socially and professionally vulnerable."

Sample of Sources Used:

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