The importance of IT security

Friday, 16 February 2007, 12:12 AM EST

Security is, without doubt, emerging as one of the most important elements in IT planning and implementation.

Companies and individual users alike are being bombarded with more, and more devastating, attacks than ever before - and many are not winning the fight against today’s new breed of IT criminals.

Experts explain that, in the past, hackers and virus-writers were typically youngsters trying to test the technical expertise and their reward was glory rather than money.

At the Network Times.

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