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Article: Data Storage & Security.(The Bleeding Edge)
- Article from:
- The CPA Technology Advisor
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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Data Storage & Security
BY DAVE McCLURE
Using tools easily available on the Internet, it would take a hacker only minutes to take all of the data off of your laptop. Your office network, unless you are in the tiny minority of accounting firms that do more than just basic network security, would not take much longer.
For all of the advances we have made in data storage and retrieval systems, the greatest problem with going electronic isn't what format to use or how fast data can be searched; it is how well we can protect that data from being hacked and stolen.
Cyber-security experts divide the problem into three areas: data collection, ...