Data theft should bother everyone. It has happened way too much recently, and for all of the wrong reasons: employee takes data on laptop and leaves it in car, missing unencrypted backup tapes, lax policy on verification, etc. One of the biggest cases was Choicepoint, after which, I had serious doubts about their future. Well, it's always nice to see people learn from their mistakes:
I'm not saying that they're now impenetrable, but they're certainly doing their due diligence. I do like the final line:
"One of the lessons we learned is that security is a moving target," [DiBassiste] says. "The bad guys move too. So we have to constantly be in touch with the things we need to be doing to respond."
Very Zen.
