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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: 4, Informative) by ticho on Friday October 10 2014, @12:19PM
Most of the big companies are indeed using leased lines for sensitive stuff, and have never stopped using them. But, of course, that never makes the news.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday October 10 2014, @01:04PM
Lower latency and much lower jitter, its obvious if you're not getting switched or multiplexed...
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Saturday October 11 2014, @07:43AM
We used Multitech multiplexers on leased lines from branch offices between banks. Impressive shit, even at 9600 baud! Leased lines, in my day, were just a batphone. Not sure what kinda speed you can get now.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday October 10 2014, @02:29PM
When I first read TFS I was going to post that the leased lines can be completely co-opted by the government to send all data to them more easily than public internet. The summary is about public data breaches, but I find it a bit sad that the first thing that came to mind was the NSA.