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Establishing Your Organization’s
Security
With worldwide connections, someone can get into your system in
the middle of the night when your building is locked up. The Internet
allows the electronic equivalent of an intruder who looks for open
windows and doors. Now, a person can check for hundreds of
vulnerabilities in just a few hours.
Most network-based computer security crimes go unreported, yet
the statistics are alarming: According to industry analysts, most
breeches of Internet and data security are kept quiet. The most amazing
stories are never printed, so you never hear about them from anyone.
Companies are experiencing different types of losses. ...