Chapter 1. The Information Security Challenge
Four CEOs were taking a break during a recent American Banking Association (ABA) meeting and struck up a conversation about recent challenges they were facing. Howard related a recent incident caused by the Slammer Worm that made his bank's 13,000 automated teller machines (ATMs) unavailable to their customers for approximately 24 hours. This worm spread so quickly that his information technology (IT) organization could not react in time. A worm is a self-replicating malicious program that doesn't require user interaction to spread between computers and across networks. Fast-replicating worms can consume resources, slowing computers and networks to a crawl or crashing them altogether.
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