Enemy at the Water Cooler

Foreword

By Hugh Njemanze

By now, most of us take the Internet for granted as a useful and even indispensable part of the corporate environment. Without the Internet, many daily tasks would be a lot harder. Who would want to go back to—or even remembers—the old ways of looking up information on competitive products, or on equipment prior to purchase, or on selling off used-and-no-longer-needed equipment? Or how would you like to book business travel the way we did before Google, eBay, or Expedia came along?

But we also know that the Internet can be a dangerous place. All sorts of bad guys are out there trying to breach our networks, deface our Web sites, and disrupt the operation of our network services. However, until recently, we have mostly paid ...