Think of it as the seamy underside of the bad economy: Harsh market conditions, corporate cost-cutting and a downsized, disgruntled workforce create the perfect storm for systematic and sophisticated attacks by underworld enterprises on data systems in respected companies worldwide. So here’s what we have today: record data breaches, heists of increasing intensity and scale, and a network of expert hackers buying and selling attack vectors and system vulnerability information. It’s not uncommon to read of tens of millions of dollars being siphoned from payment networks.
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A New Approach for Protecting Data All the Way Down the Line
Posted by: Mark Bower April 1, 2009 04:00 AMThink of it as the seamy underside of the bad economy: Harsh market conditions, corporate cost-cutting and a downsized, disgruntled workforce create the perfect storm for systematic and sophisticated attacks by underworld enterprises on data systems in respected companies worldwide. So here’s what we have today: record data breaches, heists of increasing intensity and scale, and a network of expert hackers buying and selling attack vectors and system vulnerability information. It’s not uncommon to read of tens of millions of dollars being siphoned from payment networks.