Out-Law News 1 min. read
06 Mar 2002, 12:00 am
The survey found that:
Chris Baker, a vice president of e-business at Oracle said:
"People are naturally curious, and if they know confidential information is stored on the network, some of them are going to try to access it. The question is, how easy you are making it for them to do so?"
"Simple measures such as encryption and password protection are often sufficient to keep data secure, however 90% of the time businesses will not put these safeguards in place because of drains on performance or other similarly weak excuses."
Security companies are today warning that a malicious internet worm known as Klez.E is set to trigger today. The code will try to overwrite files on infected computers, which is potentially more harmful than deleting documents because deleted documents are often more easily be recovered.