The newly installed software patch was designed to ______ potential security vulnerabilities before hackers exploited them.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. circumvent or preemptively neutralize any flaw
- Step 1: 'Preemptively neutralize' and 'circumvent' mean to act in advance to prevent or bypass an anticipated problem. Proactive cybersecurity involves patching security flaws before malicious agents can compromise the network. Answer: circumvent or preemptively neutralize any flaw. Why not the others: "magnify system errors" means to enlarge, exaggerate, or make computer flaws worse rather than resolving them; "exacerbate cyber bugs" means to make existing software defects more severe, damaging, or widespread; "proliferate weakness" means to increase rapidly in numbers or spread vulnerabilities across systems.
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