Information Security News: Gartner plea for anti-hacking squad.

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Network News, 10/26/2000
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/more/cahners-chicago/11407/6483838/9

Enterprises need to establish specialist internal anti-hacking teams
with wide-ranging powers to defend against internet attacks, according
to analysts Gartner.

William Spernow, Gartner research director, said that such a team
would cost $250,000 a year to run, and would be hard to sell to chief
executives, but was needed in order to defend technology
infrastructures.

Four in five Gartner clients haven't considered how they would prepare
for attacks, according to Spernow: "Companies don't realise the need
to set up a team until they get burned," he said. "If you're not
prepared, you're just another victim in the pool."

A cyber incident response team would mean network and voice
engineering experts becoming involved with human resources, legal and
PR departments.

Its job would be to identify threats to a company's technological
infrastructure, which it would then contain, isolate (if necessary by
pulling the plug on internet connections), collect evidence on and, if
necessary, disable.

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