Security is often the first criterion considered by most decision makers in enterprises when they decide to adopt any new technology. The ability to deploy securely, then protect and react to security threats, is paramount to success. This has been true since the dawn of computer systems and will remain no different for the foreseeable future. Overall IT system security is compounded by the risk of losing business due to exposed, leaked, or mismanaged customer data. There are dozens of examples just in the past decade of businesses going under due to security events.
The once-dominant internet search giant Yahoo, while in acquisition discussions with Verizon, announced it had been the victim of an attack. The hack exposed the real names, email addresses, dates of birth, and telephone numbers of 500 million users in 2014. This was surpassed months later...
