Friday, October 5, 2000

Online Security: What's your approach?
In the rush to get online, many companies consider security as an afterthought. The hurry to develop an online presence causes them to overlook the obvious… they could be compromised. Many companies are willing to accept this. They consider themselves too "low profile" to be at risk. The reality is, you don't have to be an e-Bay, Yahoo, or e-Trade to get attacked. Systems are compromised for several reasons. First, intruders need multiple points of access across the Internet that cannot be tracked. These systems are used as hops. An intruder will generally hop through many compromised systems before attacking their primary target. Another thing intruders want is bandwidth. Any system sitting on a high-bandwidth connection can be targeted to get access to their services. The conclusion here is that anyone can become a target. You simply don't know how high your risk really is. Many homeowners have experienced this with the proliferation of high bandwidth connections to the home, in the form of cable or DSL access. So, how important is your security?

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