In this customer-centric world of instant access and continuous connections, E-business initiatives that outpace security considerations are heading for disaster. While IT managers spent huge amounts of time and resources to thwart the threat of year 2000 problems, information security breaches in the Internet economy are an even bigger threat. And unlike the millennium rollover bug, security is not a one-time, easy-to-ident-ify issue. It's a process that must be continually refined using audits, access-rights revisions, new tools, and changes to how data is stored. That may be why so many businesses put security on the back burner until a crisis flares up. It's time to go beyond awareness and take action. Protection from security breaches requires investment in technology, services, and personnel as well as adjustments in corporate culture—now.
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