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Protect your company from “inside jobs”


  03.04.07

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Because of the onslaught of media attention exposing privacy breaches, you know you need to secure your mainframe data.

 

Chances are, you have taken steps to do so by installing a host of anti-intrusion technologies that keep unauthorized parties—both internal and external—from accessing your

critical data.

 

But that’s not enough any more. You also need to protect against data breaches caused by trusted insiders who have authorized access.

 

Study after study reveals that the biggest security threat organizations face is internal. Industry analysts such as Gartner and Forrester indicate an overwhelming majority of security incidents incurring actual losses are inside jobs.

 

These findings are mirrored in another report, issued by the Ponemon Institute: An estimated 40 percent of data security breaches are caused by non-malicious employee error; 30 percent by malicious employee activity.

 

An increasing number of laws require notification of customers after a breach has taken place, so companies have a bottom-line need to lessen the likelihood and contain the impact of data breaches.

 

According to a second Ponemon Institute study, 20 percent of consumers have terminated a business relationship when a data privacy breach occurred; an additional 40 percent would consider doing so.


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Each month we try our hardest to cover every angle and aspect of software engineering. Indeed, we pride ourselves on our platform-agnostic wide ranging view of the development landscape. How then could we push ourselves even further and really broaden the spectrum of our editorial coverage? The answer had to be – the complete A to Z of software. Well, not complete, but a rip roaring twenty-six letter technology tour to provoke some interest and thoughts in areas you might not normally think about.

But first, a personal confession so that you know how all this started. I actually got the idea from reading a cookery magazine that had done something similar. You know the kind of thing – A for apples, B for bread, C for custard and so on. But those pesky food journalists have it easy don’t they? When they get to X, Y and Z they can just use X for Xérès Sherry, Y for Yeast and even Z for Zabaglione.

Now, X is simple enough with plenty of XMLs out there, Z for zero tolerance we reckoned, but Y, wow - now that is a hard one.

So, please dive in and jump to your favourite letter. It was always going to be the case that we would miss out on a few key areas, but we think it’s pretty cool to be able to work your way through the whole alphabet and just stay within the world of software development. Next month, 1001 aspects of application development and how you can implement them in your daily working schedule. Joke – ok?

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