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| Date: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 |
| Website tests in the last week: |
| 1041924 |
| Errors detected in the last week: |
| 29024 |
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e-Governance wide open to security breaches | | 2008/07/04 | | Although there are many ways that data can be compromised - malware, bots, key-loggers, phishing and spoofing to name but a few - it is the lack of security awareness which has been recently cited as the biggest cause of information attacks.
Failure to move with the technological times is no longer an option for most small companies and it follows that major institutions and government cannot function in the 21st century without it.
Wide-spread adoption of e-governance in parallel with innovations designed for ease of use has increased the capacity for interdepartmental information transactions but, with it, come the rise in security threats.
RSA Securities country manager, Amuleek Bijral said: "Despite massive investments in security technologies and services, few companies can claim that all their data is adequately protected."
In the past, perimeter security against external threats was considered enough but business today is global and information does not confine itself to static perimeters.
Today's technology users are accessing data from a wide array of remote devices such as mobile phones and laptops.
Speaking at the lower house of Indian Parliament, Anil Sagar, additional director of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said: "Attackers and users both are not confined to a particular geographical location so it becomes difficult to trace back to a would-be attacker.
"Also, users are not always aware of and do not give sufficient importance to security measures - the weakest link in the system is the human one." |
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