If more people
knew the amount of digital criminal behavior that is happening these days (prosecuted
or not), security budgets and awareness would certainly rise.
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It is not clear that these crimes can ever be completely prevented as long as software
and systems provide opportunities for such exploits. But wouldn??™t the better approach
be to ensure that software does not contain so many flaws that can be exploited and that
continually cause these types of issues? That is why we wrote this book.We are illustrating
the weaknesses in many types of software and showing how the weaknesses can be
exploited with the goal of the industry working together not just to plug holes in software,
but to build it right in the first place. Networks should not have a hard shell and a
chewy inside??”the protection level should properly extend across the enterprise and
involve not just the perimeter devices.
Disgruntled Employees
Have you ever noticed that companies will immediately escort terminated employees
out of the building without giving them the opportunity to gather their things or say
good-bye to coworkers? On the technology side, terminated employees are stripped of
their access privileges, computers are locked down, and often, configuration changes are
made to the systems those employees typically accessed.
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