Incident Response: A Strategic Guide to Handling System and Network Security Breaches

Conclusion

The rise of computing and networking power has dramatically impacted nearly everyone. Even if its effects are not direct, the changes in business practices and the growth of new businesses have reshaped the economies of industrialized nations. The Internet boom, for better or worse, created massive wealth all over the world.

We have also seen the democratization of computing power. At the time of this writing, an average person can purchase a computer with a processor speed of 1.5GHz.This provides that person with computing power previously only available to major corporations and, before that, to large government agencies. This spread of power benefits the user, of course, but it also has potential to make the attackers’ jobs easier. ...