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Comment: Lock down your jewels

By Darren Pauli

May 16 2011 9:05AM

Its time to stop focusing on perimeter defence and start locking down critical data.

Comment: Lock down your jewels

If “the enemy is within the gates”, doesn’t it make more sense to better protect jewels than to continue to fortify the walls? Philosophiser Marcus Tullius Cicero was talking about our propensity to crime, and 2000 years later, his aphorism remains true. Every year, a new round ...

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