Selling security to executives demands multiple strategies

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Toronto — Your network is being attacked right now. So says Brian Bourne, a member of the Toronto-based security user group called TASK The nature of the attackers is changing, he said, and attacks are primarily opportunistic — and automated. The Toronto Area Security Hatch discussed real-life security lessons at the Canadian IT Pro Community Summit, a gathering of local user groups and Microsoft technicians. A system administrator of an investment relations firm, for example, called Bourne's company, CMS Consulting, with a problem. The firm had a few servers and relied on e-mail to deal with clients. However, many people weren't receiving the company's correspondence. The system administrator couldn't find anything out of the ordinary, so he called the consulting firm to investigate.