Outsourcing avoidance may not be sufficient protection. From Information Week 2005/10/31:
"As U.S. businesses move aggressively into the burgeoning Chinese market, they had better investigate the level of IT security in place among the local companies that could become their customers and business partners. Chinese companies, it turns out, are getting hit by more computer-system attacks than their U.S. counterparts--and they're less prepared for many of the threats coming their way." http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=33SJE42XJJXR0QSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=172901194 . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 12/29/2005 03:14:12 PM: > Can anyone "guarantee invulnerability"? > > I used to work at ACS in Dallas and the security there was better than > in most of the data centers that they were outsourcing. Outsourcers do > not work on "very low profit margins", they operate on economies of > scale. They can run multiple companies processing for less money than > it would take each of those companies to operate independently. At > least that is the business model that they use. > > Edward E. Jaffe wrote: > > > Phil Payne wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> I think it vanishingly unlikely that any commercial operation - > >> especially in outsourcing, > >> where the gross margins are already very low - would be able to > >> afford the kind of security > >> measures needed to guarantee invulnerability from the kind of > >> fanatics who could engineer > >> 9/11. > >> > >> It should be on the checklist of anyone considering business critical > >> outsourcing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
