How to combat increasing cyber security threats?

Of late, cyber-criminal activities across the globe have assumed such grave proportions that all enterprises - big and small, are exposed to security breaches and identity thefts of various kinds. Many sabotage were found to have been caused by the insiders of the enterprises - either disgruntled staff or greedy techies or sacked employees.

Lack of well-defined internal controls and access restrictions generally pave the way for security incidents. Particularly, as stolen identities seem to have served as the ‘hacking channel’ for many cyber-crimes, improper management of the administrative passwords is believed to be at the root of a good number of security threats.

Security experts strongly believe that many security incidents (though not all) are actually avoidable by placing access restrictions and well-defined password policies.

How can we combat the threats?

Read my article on 'Combating Cyber Security Threats' in Express Computer (Nov 23rd issue):

http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20091123/technology04.shtml

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