You’re savvy. You’ve read lots of network security horror stories, so you’ve taken all the usual 
precautions. You’ve installed firewalls, password-protected your gear, and created offsite backups.
But is that enough?
Probably not, because “information security” has practically become an oxymoron. The technologies that make today’s corporations more efficient and effective also make them more vulnerable to attack.
Leakages tend to occur at the seams of an organization’s defenses: A backup tape falls off a truck on its way to storage, or a laptop loaded with private data vanishes from the trunk of a car.
Targeted threats are evolving as well. The glory days of the lone hacker toiling away in his bedroom are a thing of the past; today’s more sophisticated intruders have organized themselves into syndicates to conduct Mission Impossible-style "ops" - they actually call them that - to pilfer information from your network. A guide to securing your company’s data - Oct. 24, 2006
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