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Robert X. Cringely points out the hidden costs of running corporate IT over the public internet:
How cheap is IT, really, if it compromises customer data? Not cheap at all. Last year’s Target hack alone cost the company more than $1 billion, estimated Forrester Research. The comparably-sized Home Depot hack will probably cost about the same. JP Morgan Chase is likely to face even higher costs.
He wonders why companies aren't shifting to dedicated networks, like they used to make with leased lines.
Taking a bank or retail network back to circa 1989 would go a long way toward ending the current rash of data breaches. It would be expensive, sure, but not as expensive as losing all the money that Target and others have recently done.
Is this practical? If so, how would it be accomplished with modern equipment?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 10 2014, @12:15PM
Cringely's column was down for quite a while. It should have stayed down. Or at least he might try to learn about these new fangled things called firewalls and VPNs. But i guess that, for an internet blogger like Cringely, completely cutting off the enterprise's intranet from the internet is unthinkable.