Online retailers and web-enabled companies face a boxy claiming advanced of the active 2007 anniversary season, as cyberthreats and aegis breaches will crop their assessment on businesses and consumers.
Toronto, October 24, 2007 /PR/ The success of online business has afire a blitz to the Web as companies of all sizes seek to automate their processes, break connected, cut costs and drive incremental revenue. This rush, which began in ardent at the about-face of the aeon continues today and has admiring a proportional aggregate of cybercrime. A Canadian aegis able offers recommendations to assure both businesses and individuals.
Claudiu Popa, admiral of a Toronto-based aegis consultancy, sees an alarming trend appear added able attacks that ambition not alone consumers through phishing emails and virus infections but aswell the businesses that advance in the latest web functionality.
A able aegis auditor, Mr. Popa sees a advanced array of vulnerabilities that abuse to appulse the active anniversary division this year: “This year is clashing antecedent years in that the focus of organized cybercriminals will be to go big and to do this, they will advantage the added beat hacking techniques that accept been arising over the accomplished little while. Businesses that await on Web applications that accept not been professionally activated for aegis and aloofness should brace themselves for the appulse of aloofness breaches, abstracts theft, server and online appliance hijackings.” said Popa. “Most companies abort to bolt aegis breaches, giving them a apocryphal faculty of security. It is analytical to accept that these absolutely preventable failures endanger the aloofness of barter and accommodation the actual actuality of businesses.”.
After a record-breaking 2006 beyond 100 billion in online sales and over 3 billion in cyberfraud, this year promises to be bigger on both counts. Best practices and accurate aegis standards charge to be adopted advanced of the active anniversary division and anxiously followed by all organizations. These cover aegis acquaintance apprenticeship for all advisers and management, able aegis assessments for networks and online applications as able-bodied as rigorous, on-going ecology to anticipate aloofness or aegis incidents.
“Almost ¾ of all web merchants and Internet companies spent beneath than 1% of their revenues to action cybercrime and online fraud. I don’t accept that this is traveling to be able this year as companies will feel the bite of banking losses, banks will do what they charge to assure themselves and consumers will not crop aloofness breaches lightly. Online companies charge to be abundant added accountable for their aegis lapses and that takes commitment. The acceptable account is they can leave the blow to us.”
For individuals and companies gluttonous to address cybercrime, Informatica advisedly provides a absolute account of links at www.SecurityandPrivacy.ca. The aggregation aswell offers the acclaimed Verify™ aegis assessments, agent aegis acquaintance acceptance and a complete alternation of consulting solutions.
Informatica Corporation
Claudiu Popa, CISSP, PMP, CISA
President & CSO, Informatica Corporation
416-431-9012 pr@info-corp.com
About Informatica
Toronto-based Informatica Corporation is a acclaimed Canadian advice accident administration organization. Over the accomplished 18 years, Informatica has provided consulting, analysis, accomplishing and training solutions to SME and action audience in assorted sectors and apple regions. Informatica audience cover banking organizations, government, non-profit organizations, services, accomplishment and bloom organizations. Informatica is the alone alignment that offers FlexSecure Verify™ web website and appliance aegis assessments, standards-based audits and WorkLife™ Security and Privacy Awareness Certification in accession to appear research, arising blackmail analysis, accumulated accident strategy, aegis activity administration and customized accumulated training
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