Taking on the protection challenge

By Tim Mather on Apr 14, 2006 8:14 PM
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It is an old truism that crime goes where the money is. And today, the money is in the data, so that’s where we find the electronic crime.

According to the Better Business Bureau, 8.9 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2005. And, in a hearing before the House Committee on Government Reform, the Committee chair stated that the "Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) reported that U.S. companies lost between $200 and $250 billion in 2003 because of piracy and counterfeiting." Even by American standards, $200 billion is a lot of money, and the problem did not diminish last year. The issue for us information security professionals is: Do we get it? Have we moved our strategies and efforts toward a more ...
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