What is a Deterrent Cybersecurity Control?

Risk deterrence is the process of implementing deterrents to would-be violators of security and policy. Example: Implementing warning banners on your system login pages that only authorized personnel can access those systems.

The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error (e.g., malformed request syntax, invalid request message framing, or deceptive request routing).

A non-standard status code used to instruct nginx to close the connection without sending a response to the client, most commonly used to deny malicious or malformed requests.

The request has been fulfilled and has resulted in one or more new resources being created. The primary resource created by the request is identified by either a Location header field in the response or, if no Location field is received, by the effective request URI. The 201 response payload typically describes and links to…

The origin server is refusing to service the request because the payload is in a format not supported by this method on the target resource. The format problem might be due to the request’s indicated Content-Type or Content-Encoding, or as a result of inspecting the data directly.

A conditional GET or HEAD request has been received and would have resulted in a 200 OK response if it were not for the fact that the condition evaluated to false. In other words, there is no need for the server to transfer a representation of the target resource because the request indicates that the client, which…