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Article: Keeping the contagion at bay. (computer viruses)
- Article from:
- Security Management
- Article date:
- December 1, 1989
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KEEPING THE CONTAGION AT BAY
EXECUTIVES AND MANAGERS across the country are becoming increasingly aware of a plague threatening the lifeblood of their corporations - information contamination. If the sixties and seventies were the beginning of the computer era, the eighties and nineties might be termed the information revolution. Businesses worldwide are using and managing information as a viable corporate asset. In fact, information is often called the heart of an organization, as it pumps blood into corporate planning, decision making, product design, and marketing methods and is incorporated into measurements of performance and profitability.
However, ...