Are your corporate networks, intranets, extranets and e-commerce transactions secure from attack? Increased use of the Internet, networking capabilities and e-commerce transactions by organizations have tremendously increased the potential losses from inadequate security. A recent survey of management at several top public and private sector organizations in the United Kingdom, commissioned by Dimension Data, showed that fifty four percent of information technology managers admitted their organizations did not have a security plan in place or were not sure one existed. These statistics are not surprising considering recent security breaches at companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft. In the case of Microsoft, a teenage hacker may have accessed proprietary source code for a significant period of time. The Computer Security Institute also announced that of respondents to their recent survey, primarily large corporations and government agencies, ninety percent reported cyber attacks in
