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Leased Lines could Secure Corporate Networks

posted by martyb on Friday October 10 2014, @11:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-you-feel-lucky-punk? dept.

jcross writes:

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?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 10 2014, @02:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 10 2014, @02:57PM (#104480)

    e.g. use the payment processor's hosted tools so that your boxes never see the CC data. But I know that's not solving the problem, it's just making it so that my clients aren't liable if there is a problem.

    It does more than that: Given that your payment processor needs to get the CC data anyway, keeping it only with the payment processor means a smaller attack surface.