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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: 3, Informative) by Foobar Bazbot on Friday October 10 2014, @03:34PM
Remember a few months ago [washingtonpost.com]? When we all heard that Google already was using leased lines, and NSA+GCHQ were tapping those "secure" lines?
At this point it became clear that one must encrypt data on leased lines as well, and since that's the same encryption needed to be secure on the internet, security doesn't seem like a reason to choose leased lines.