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The 2002 Information Security Breaches Survey managed
by Pricewaterhouse Coopers on behalf of the UK Department
of trade and Industry determined that IT security breaches
are costing UK businesses up to £18bn every year.
Its research shows that the threat is growing at an alarming
rate. Forty four per cent of businesses suffered some
kind of security breach in 2001, almost double the figure
in 2000 and is expected to get worse.
Information that traverses unsecured networks is open
to many types of attacks. Anyone with access to an unprotected
system and a little technical knowledge can read, alter,
or forge the data in transit, and programs are available
through the Internet to facilitate this process. If
the information exchanged across the network is valuable
to the customers business, or if it needs to be protected
to ensure the privacy of its users and/or its clients,
then security through encryption must be considered.
Our investigations have shown that most organisations
have minimal network security. P&C Communications
are able to supply economic and managed network security
services which provides data encryption and maximum
security at the IP address level protecting both the
customers local, and wide area networks from unauthorised
intrusions.
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