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Gartner plea for anti-hacking squad.
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:13:34 -0500
Fowarded by: C. L. Staten <sysop () emergency com> Network News, 10/26/2000 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/more/cahners-chicago/11407/6483838/9 Enterprises need to establish specialist internal anti-hacking teams with wide-ranging powers to defend against internet attacks, according to analysts Gartner. William Spernow, Gartner research director, said that such a team would cost $250,000 a year to run, and would be hard to sell to chief executives, but was needed in order to defend technology infrastructures. Four in five Gartner clients haven't considered how they would prepare for attacks, according to Spernow: "Companies don't realise the need to set up a team until they get burned," he said. "If you're not prepared, you're just another victim in the pool." A cyber incident response team would mean network and voice engineering experts becoming involved with human resources, legal and PR departments. Its job would be to identify threats to a company's technological infrastructure, which it would then contain, isolate (if necessary by pulling the plug on internet connections), collect evidence on and, if necessary, disable. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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