Computer Security: Networked for Crime

While individual personal computers (PC) are easy and inexpensive to secure, the information on networked systems is particularly vulnerable to theft or damage and is difficult to safeguard. The average loss to a company through exploitation of computing systems is far greater than the loss from any...

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Published in:Security management 1991-12, Vol.35 (12), p.26
Main Author: Nickell, Daniel B
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Audit trails
Computer viruses
Computers
Connectivity
Criminal investigations
Cybersecurity
Data encryption
Dishonesty
Earthquakes
Employees
Identification
Insured losses
Personal computers
Robbery
Security management
Security systems
Theft
Threats
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Summary:While individual personal computers (PC) are easy and inexpensive to secure, the information on networked systems is particularly vulnerable to theft or damage and is difficult to safeguard. The average loss to a company through exploitation of computing systems is far greater than the loss from any other form of theft. The number of computer viruses is increasing by 47% per year, and some estimates place the average insured loss from electronic tampering or exploitation of computer-based systems as high as $500,000. A networked PC provides an ideal opportunity for crime, whether intelligence-collection activities by corporate competitors and foreign governments who want to simply look at and download proprietary or classified information or intruders who would distroy or sabotage files, insert viruses, or use computers to steal. The principal tools used in security solutions include physical security, identification and authentication, discretionary access control, mandatory access control, object reuse, encryption, and audit trails.
ISSN:0145-9406
1930-6970