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Into the Fire(wall)
Electronic applications manage so much of our lives that most of us have computers not only in our offices but in our homes, our briefcases, and often our pockets. We tend, however, to think of business computers as more rugged and impenetrable than those we use in our personal lives. At the office, we have a management team who sees to the company’s best interest. And these days, computers are at the hub of meeting that responsibility.
For most companies (and certainly their executive teams), though, network security is not a core competency. And it need not be built as one. A business partner can manage and maintain firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention services, routers, switches, OS configuration and software patches. It can conduct network vulnerability assessments and create automated responses to malicious activity like worm or virus intrusion.
Negotiating Good and Bad
Although security software vendors and the media recently have proselytized the rise of profit-oriented, targeted adware, spyware, viruses, bots and other threats, these and their earlier iterations have been wreaking destruction since 2003 and growing at an alarming rate. The appearance of these programs on even one of your company’s machines has clear security- and privacy-breach implications.
In the first half of 2006 alone, Symantec identified an …
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