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CHAPTER 4: CASE STUDIES
The security business is a strange world: revealing
case studies always has a feel of storytelling to it, not
because the events depicted might never have
happened, but because it can be hard for someone
who is not privy to the chain of events to understand
that such things could even happen at all. Years ago
this was much more of an issue due to a lack of
media reports. Even a couple of years ago a typical
reaction of a reader would have been ‘What???’ Now
it is ‘Not again…’ Alas, the ‘not again’ effect will
happen over and over again until organisations get
their act together. The following case studies are
taken from organisations that had suffered a minor or
major problem. They illustrate our points and ...