Securities Industry News
Taming the Computer Security Shrew
Monday, 23, Feb 2009
I’m taking a little poetic license here with Shakespeare’s original plot line, but small business owners could do worse than take a page from Petruchio’s book and make a determined effort to tame the threat cyber criminals pose to today’s businesses. Without effective methods to tame the threats, businesses risk losing all the benefits an effective business-computer partnership can deliver.
Consider the enormity of what the business has to protect against the bad guys. Then add to the mix the speed and complexity at which threats grow and change. So much has been written about both these topics that most businesses can’t keep up. Besides, who has time to read all the literature on a subject that doesn’t add value to the business? Most businesses would probably say, “We want security vendors to predict the future and work as reliably as the light switch. Oh, and did we mention we want it now.”
