After more than 50 years of investment in information security it would seem reasonable to expect the IT community to be winning its perennial battle with hackers, crackers and the assorted other threats to the integrity of corporate data and systems. The reality, sadly, is very different.
Although studies suggest that familiar threats such as viruses and the teenage hacker are less potent than they used to be, in most other respects the IT security challenge is still expanding faster than many chief information officers (CISOs), or their allies in the information security industry, will publicly care to admit.
