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Re: Companies Confront Rising Network Threats
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 04:51:32 -0500 (CDT)
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Forwarded by: C. L. Staten <sysop () emergency com> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netinf/article/0,,11962_795451,00.html By Eva Marer July 2, 2001 Every morning, Gregor Bailar, executive vice president of operations and technology and CIO of NASDAQ, pores over the previous day's security report. "We have hundreds of different types of hacking and other security attempts in any given week," he says. At the moment, Bailar's not so much worried about a breach of NASDAQ's trading system -- a private network of computers secured behind a tank embankment wall -- but about the potential damage in dollars and investor confidence should one of the exchange's public Web sites go down.
Should? Wonder if he had any comments for when it DID. http://attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/09/15/www.nasdaq-amex.com/ Interesting to note that this page has since been 'retired' and asks the user to choose www.nasdaq.com or www.amex.com. Name: nasdaq-amex.com Address: 208.249.117.76 Name: nasdaq.com Addresses: 63.79.105.71, 208.249.117.71 Name: amex.com Address: 208.249.117.79 These machines are all on the same network and could very well be virtually hosted off a single machine.
Like many senior technologists, Bailar makes decisions about risk management every day. Unlike most CIOs, however, he's got the backing to make his decisions stick. Those resources include two dedicated security teams, a direct pipeline to national security personnel, armed security guards, and a total budget of $450 million.
All of these resources didn't stand up to a couple defacers..
Bailar shakes his head at the way companies leave themselves open for attack. But in a way it's understandable, says Savage. "A lot of
Ironic..
Eva Marer is a freelance reporter based in New York who writes for CIN, an internet.com site where this story first appeared. She covers investments, personal finance, and corporate technology issues for a variety of trade and consumer magazines.
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