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The Threat of a Fiber Hack
The criminal threat continues to grow: Consumer Affairs estimates that in 2005 more than 50 million Americans received notification that their personal data was stolen due to a data security breach. The FBI Cybercrime unit estimates that more than $100 billion a year is lost through corporate espionage.
To counter this, billions are spent on information security products. The SANS Institute listed the federal government's 2006 IT security budget alone at $1.685 billion—up 7.2 percent from 2005.
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Unfortunately, optical hacks render most traditional security methodologies ineffective. Financial, health care, insurance and publicly traded companies saddled with regulatory compliance rarely consider that private and sensitive data delivered over fiber-optic communication systems is vulnerable to being captured through virtually undetectable hacks.
Your data transmissions may have already been compromised without your being aware of it. Securing fiber-optic transmission can be costly and difficult, and the bad guys, as usual, have a head start.
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