Looking Up the Crime Rate

When moving an office to a new town, one of the first things on our task list should be to look up the demographic crime statistics for the area. We may not feel comfortable parking the new corporate Lexus in front of the office if 50% of cars in that area get broken into. So, we look up the statistics, discover that the crime rate is quite low, and decide to go ahead and move in.

Now, let's consider our location in the world of networks. If we were to judge the Internet, our extranets, and other networks via the same standards we use to judge a neighborhood's crime rating, people would be much more cautious about taking up residence in cyberspace. Attaching a server to some local ISPs could be compared with building a bank in the worst slum of the most crime-ridden city imaginable.

Sadly, when we are shopping for new rental space on the Internet, we are not provided with the same luxury and convenience of knowing the statistical dangers as we would if we were buying a new home. There is no such thing as a simple, straight-to-the-point document that we can wave in front of the chief executive officer (CEO) as we beg for funding to buy a lock for the front door. Of course, we can't go a day without seeing something related to how Organization X was broken into, but then we hear so few people talking about their own real-world security problems that the whole issue seems overrated. Thus, we have little to no real knowledge of the crime rate in the area.



Inside the Security Mind(c) Making the Tough Decisions
Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions
ISBN: 0131118293
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 119
Authors: Kevin Day

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