No matter how solid the disaster recovery plan your company had in place prior to Sept. 11, you've almost certainly revisited it since then. What will be disheartening is if, having done that, your company then decides that no further action is warranted. Might that happen?
Web technologies get personalized to increase profits
Suddenly, you're faced with yet another intrusion, attack, abuse, virus or worm. Who should you call? What will you do immediately and long-term? Will your company even know it's been violated?
Whether it's e-commerce, customer relationship management, personalization, customization or content management, chances are there's a database somewhere in the middle.
You could make the argument that living in Florida, we're among the nation's most "holiday challenged." The thermometer rarely dips below 78, and fireplace flues are rusted shut by saltwater-laden air. You could go broke trying to sell tire chains, snowboards or mittens here.
If you listened to President Bush's address to Congress and the nation on Sept. 20, in which he first outlined the U.S.'s plan for reacting to the Sept. 11 attacks, you heard him mention <a href="http://www.libertyunites.org" target="_">>www.libertyunites.org</a>. Did you wonder to yourself who was behind an obviously sudden Web site that would shortly receive millions of hits and would have to immediately collect and make sense of huge amounts of data?
As you probably know, it's not a trivial task to use the Web to extend host system access to your employees. Furthermore, another challenge awaits in getting the same system out past the firewall to business partners. But suppose you also had to reach each and every employee within your partners' organizations?
Justifications for business intelligence projects are as varied as business strategies and vendor product claims. Many are good, others not.
Internet security is not just a network problem.