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Business Spotlight: Corporate Network Security
Does a hacker sit two cubes away from you? A new survey from
PricewaterhouseCoopers and Information Week finds that among the 73
percent of companies that have experienced a security breach in the past
year, authorized employees accounted for 58 percent of the break-ins.
Forrester analyst Ted Julian explains that hacking incidents are expensive
– not just because of the cost of what's taken but because of the costs
associated with cleaning up the mess.
Research from the Computer Security Institute and the FBI estimates the
cost of all computer crime climbed to $136 million in 1998 – a seemingly
modest number, though computer crime also tends to be vastly
underreported. The incidence of Internet-originated attacks rose to 54
percent – up from 38 percent in 1996.
Your best defense? Offense. "A sound, secure environment starts with
policy," says Chris Christiansen, director of IDC's Internet security
service. Documentation of proper access, traffic flow and password
maintenance will make your corporate network a less-attractive target.
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Received on Mon Sep 21 19:36:58 1998