computer security
It is 1994, a Russian hacker named Vladimir Levin and a group of accomplices are siting at a desk of a computer office somewhere in St. Petersburg. There, Levin electronically transfers $11 million from Citibank's New York-based ainframes to Finland, Israel, and California. This all occurred under the watch of ne of Citibank's top information officers in charge of security, Colin Crook. This rightening occurrence is not a rare event; many businesses are finding that their omputer system's security is being bypassed and that their private files are being invaded. As Businesses begin to rely more heavily on the Internet for information exchange and sales, these events are only likely to increase.Just a few companies which have fallen victim to these malevolent hackers are AOL, Boeing, Intel, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, and ironically enough the Pentagon which just a few decades early had made the Internet for military use. In a recent survey of Corporations, it was found that these Businesses are not alone and that approximately 53% of 428 U.S. Corporations fell victims to viruses and 42% had had some unauthorized use of their systems. (These figures may also be small due to the fact tha
Encryption is often the next line of defense against the hacker. Firewalls simply block out certain files for certain users and their passwords while encryption changes these files to encoded text and no one can read them unless they have the correct encryption program and the correct key to unlock those files. Encryption has proven itself to be useful to Master Card and Visa who wish to allow their customers to use their services on the Internet. "If encryption were universally used, it wouldn't matter how secure Firewalls, browsers, or Java were. Nobody would be able to read what they stole," says Information Security's Matchett. The biggest threat to some corporations is the dishonest employee who may be disgruntled and becomes a prime target for use by other corporations in corporate spying. - $ 5 000 - Anti-virus software, $100 per workstation.
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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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