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Argument: A company's new security software uses a proprietary algorithm to detect patterns indicative of a cyberattack. Since the software correctly identified 99% of simulated attacks in testing, the company's networks are now virtually immune to data breaches.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?
- The 1% of simulated attacks that the software failed to detect happened to be the very least damaging kinds of attacks the company might ever face.
- The proprietary detection algorithm will be revised and updated on a regular basis to keep pace with emerging hacking methods.
- A targeted cyberattack is the single most expensive type of data breach the company has ever had to absorb.
- No competing security software package currently sold anywhere is able to detect a full 100% of all simulated test attacks.
- The simulated attacks used in testing accurately reflect the types of methods real-world hackers will use in actual breach attempts.
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