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Acceptable Risks
In the digital economy, security breaches are inevitable. The
InformationWeek/PricewaterhouseCoopers global security survey reveals how
E-commerce is raising the stakes, and how far companies will go to ward
off intruders
By Gregory Dalton
Organizations rushing to build information systems for all forms of
digital commerce are realizing there's no fail-safe way to secure the free
flow of data or money. It's like trying to protect the telephone system
from prank callers, or trying to block spammers from clogging your
messaging system.
Except it's often far worse. Organizations engaged in Web commerce,
electronic supply chains, and enterprise resource planning experience
three times the incidents of information loss and theft of trade secrets
than everybody else. Revenue loss, though not prevalent, is seven times
more likely to strike Web commerce sites compared with noncommerce sites.
These are two of the key findings of the 1998
InformationWeek/PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Information Security Survey
fielded this summer in 50 countries and completed by 1,600 IT and security
professionals.
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Received on Wed Sep 2 08:47:31 1998