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E-commerce Security Threats Are Legion By November 15, 1999 Friendly Fire Another option that''s available to you is a "Red Team" attack using security specialists from big name firms like IBM, Verisign, Ernst and Young, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Moira Consulting, Anderson Consulting, and others. These Attack and Penetration (A&P) exercises can rapidly reveal serious existing or potential security holes that you must seal before you''re entrusted with private, sensitive, and confidential customer and company data. Finally, a new service being offered from Lloyds of London enables you to insure yourself against losses of gross revenue, including brand-name degradation, and costs from lost, stolen,, copied, or destroyed intellectual property. If you can afford the coverage, hats off to you! Ultimately, security placed in the wrong hands is worse than no security at all. Trust is far too tenuous to play around with.

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