Every morning, a systems administrator monitors failed login attempts on the company's log management server. The administrator notices the DBAdmin account has five failed username and/or password alerts during a ten-minute window. The systems administrator determines the user account is a dummy account used to attract attackers. Which of the following techniques should the systems administrator implement?

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A honeypot is a security mechanism set to detect, deflect, or counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems, which aligns with the use of a dummy account to attract attackers.

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