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Threat landscape and lapses justify security paranoia

Security remained foremost on the minds of IT leadership in 2005, and with good reason. The year saw a Microsoft research project discover the first so called zero day exploit; "identity theft," "phishing," and "spyware" became part of the popular lexicon; and the need grew for companies to treat any computer joining the network as hostile until proved secure. It's no wonder IT people at all levels sound paranoid.

Incredibly, the year passed without a crippling event of global reach -- although if one belongs to the glass-half-empty school, that bit of good luck can be interpreted as having simply prompted people to become complacent. After all, 2005 was a year in which some business, university, or government entity acknowledging that it had mishandled sensitive data seemed to be a weekly occurrence. Threat landscape and lapses justify security paranoia | InfoWorld | Award | 2006-01-02 | By P.J. Connolly

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