Infosecurity reaches the boardroom

摘要

We were talking casually at at the RSA Conference. "We had no intrusion detection systems at all at the time," said the head of security from New York bank JP Morgan Chase. And how long ago was this, I asked. "Oh, about three years," she replied. It is only at big trade shows that you can meet a lot of people with similar interests and compare notes in this way, and the RSA show in San Francisco proved to be a good barometer of the times. The casual comment about IDS came as a stark reminder that information security is still, for most people and organizations, in its very early stages. We have come a long way in the last three years, but our industry is still very immature.