By JP Blaho The Internet, over the last two decades, has helped
create a different way of interacting, transferring knowledge,
and conducting business. It has helped create a level playing
field in which companies of any size, and from anywhere in the
world, can compete for a consumer’s business. This has also
introduced a completely new form of risk– network security.
Network security has become one of the fastest growing sectors
within IT because of the growing number of cybercriminals. This
black-market has designed a business model where the focus is on
breaking into businesses via the Internet. The intent is mainly
to exploit their targets for money: whether it’s through holding
a company’s network hostage via a DDoS attack, or stealing
company data to sell to someone else. The level of success
achieved by cybercriminals has grown to scale so that it has
become a volume business which has been estimated to be in the
billions of dollars annually. This does not bode well for
organizations, especially those